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Table of Contents

Reviews

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28824

Charlotte Kuperwasser, and Wafik S. El-Deiry
1-29
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Hypothesis

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28823

Wafik S. El-Deiry
30-33
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Case Reports

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28827

Patrizia Gentilini, Janci C. Lindsay, Nafuko Konishi, Masanori Fukushima, and Panagis Polykretis
34-49
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Commentaries

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28829

Panagis Polykretis, Janci C. Lindsay, Patrizia Gentilini, Nafuko Konishi, and Masanori Fukushima
50-53
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Editorial Perspective

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28836

Uzma Saqib, Monika Pandey, and Krishnan Hajela
54-56
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Corrections

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28846

Steven A. Greenberg
57-58
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Research Papers

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28826

Allison Makovec, John T. Phoenix, Hannah E. Bergom, Ella Boytim, Ava P. Gustafson, Aiden Deacon, Sydney Tape, Atef Ali, Megan Ludwig, Samuel P. Pitzen, David Moline, Camden Richter, Hudson Longie, Mei-Chi Su, Sampreeti Jena, Pornlada Likasitwatanakul, Justin M. Drake, R. Stephanie Huang, William C. Hahn, Jonathan P. Rennhack, Scott M. Dehm, Steven Kregel, Emmanuel S. Antonarakis, and Justin Hwang
59-73
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Corrections

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28845

Antonio Bilancio, Paola Bontempo, Marzia Di Donato, Mariarosaria Conte, Pia Giovannelli, Lucia Altucci, Antimo Migliaccio, and Gabriella Castoria
74-75
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28844

Claudia Fumarola, Daniele Cretella, Silvia La Monica, Mara A. Bonelli, Roberta Alfieri, Cristina Caffarra, Federico Quaini, Denise Madeddu, Angela Falco, Andrea Cavazzoni, Graziana Digiacomo, Giulia Mazzaschi, Valentina Vivo, Elisabetta Barocelli, Marcello Tiseo, Pier Giorgio Petronini, and Andrea Ardizzoni
76-77
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Research Papers

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28861

Michael R. Booth, Laurence Booth, Jane L. Roberts, John M. Kirkwood, and Paul Dent
78-89
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Reviews

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28851

Kayode Ahmed, and Juan E. Núñez-Ríos
90-118
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Retraction

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28835

Lin-Hai Yan, Zhi-Ning Chen, Li-Li, Jia Chen, Wen-E Wei, Xian-Wei Mo, Yu-Zhou Qin, Yuan Lin, and Jian-Si Chen
119-119
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Research Papers

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28855

Maryam Aleid, Fatimah Aleid, Daniah Allbdi, Ahmad Rchdeih, Dhai Almuteri, Abdulelah Almesned, Samaa Alotab, Yumna AlMishary, Galia Alsamman, and Atlal Abusanad
120-135
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Corrections

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28843

Fakeng Liu, Rui Jin, Xiuju Liu, Henry Huang, Scott C. Wilkinson, Diansheng Zhong, Fadlo R. Khuri, Haian Fu, Adam Marcus, Yulong He, and Wei Zhou
136-136
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28842

Gonzalo Sequeira, Silvia I Vanzulli, Paola Rojas, Caroline Lamb, Lucas Colombo, María May, Alfredo Molinolo, and Claudia Lanari
137-138
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Reviews

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28856

Pragnesh Parmar, and Gunvanti Rathod
139-155
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Retraction

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28834

Lili Yang, Gongliang Guo, Liqun Sun, Chenhao Li, and Haipeng Zhang
156-156
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Research Papers

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28854

Tayo A. Adeyika, Anju Datturgi, Yehnara Ettinoffe, Somiranjan Ghosh, Christopher Albanese, and Bernard Kwabi-Addo
157-172
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Editorial Perspective

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28852

Scientific Integrity Office at Oncotarget
173-177
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Retraction

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28875

Zijian Wu, Bin Liu, Xuemin Zheng, Huijing Hou, and Ying Li
178-178
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28876

Yong Wang, Zhen-Zhen Wu, and Wei Wang
179-179
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28833

Tiantian Wang, Mei Wang, Shuang Fang, Qiang Wang, Rui Fang, and Jie Chen
180-181
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28830

Zheng Li, Xin Yu, Yang Wang, Jianxiong Shen, William Ka Kei Wu, Jinqian Liang, and Fan Feng
182-183
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28832

Yuedi Dai, Meixing Wang, Haixia Wu, Mi Xiao, Houbao Liu, and Dexiang Zhang
184-184
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28847

Bo Tang, Guangying Qi, Fang Tang, Shengguang Yuan, Zhenran Wang, Xingsi Liang, Bo Li, Shuiping Yu, Jie Liu, Qi Huang, Yangchao Wei, Run Zhai, Biao Lei, Hongping Yu, Xingyuan Jiao, and Songqing He
185-186
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28848

Jian-Rong Guo, Huan Wang, Xiao-Ju Jin, Dong-Lin Jia, Xun Zhou, and Qiang Tao
187-187
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28849

Huidan Deng, Ping Kuang, Hengmin Cui, Qin Luo, Huan Liu, Yujiao Lu, Jing Fang, Zhicai Zuo, Junliang Deng, Yinglun Li, Xun Wang, and Ling Zhao
188-188
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28841

Ling Ye, Yan Mou, Jian Wang, and Mei-Ling Jin
189-189
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28866

Feng Li, Ping Yi, Jingnan Pi, Lanfang Li, Jingyi Hui, Fang Wang, Aihua Liang, and Jia Yu
190-191
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28873

Xin Zheng, Tao Song, Changwei Dou, Yuli Jia, and Qingguang Liu
192-192
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28839

Xian-Jun Zhang, Hong-Yuan Yu, Yong-Jian Cai, and Mang Ke
193-194
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28869

Xin Liu, Liu Yang, Jianfeng Tu, Wenwei Cai, Meiqi Zhang, Zhangxuan Shou, Yingmin Yao, and Qiuran Xu
195-196
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28868

Youmao Tao, Tao Han, Tao Zhang, Chong Ma, and Caixia Sun
197-198
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28837

Guixing Jiang, Yunfu Cui, Xin Yu, Zhengrong Wu, Guoping Ding, and Liping Cao
199-200
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28860

Ziliang Wang, Yang Liu, Lili Lu, Lina Yang, Sheng Yin, Yan Wang, Zihao Qi, Jiao Meng, Rongyu Zang, and Gong Yang
201-201
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28865

Teng-Fei Fan, Lin-Lin Bu, Wei-Ming Wang, Si-Rui Ma, Jian-Feng Liu, Wei-Wei Deng, Liang Mao, Guang-Tao Yu, Cong-Fa Huang, Bing Liu, Wen-Feng Zhang, and Zhi-Jun Sun
202-202
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28840

Weidong Li, Xiaobo Miao, Lingling Liu, Yue Zhang, Xuejun Jin, Xiaojun Luo, Hai Gao, and Xubin Deng
203-203
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28838

Songyu Tian, Mingyue Zhang, Xiuwei Chen, Yunduo Liu, and Ge Lou
204-204
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28864

Haifeng Qiu, Amanda L. Jackson, Joshua E. Kilgore, Yan Zhong, Leo Li-Ying Chan, Paola A. Gehrig, Chunxiao Zhou, and Victoria L. Bae-Jump
205-205
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28867

Haifeng Qiu, Jing Li, Leslie H. Clark, Amanda L. Jackson, Lu Zhang, Hui Guo, Joshua E. Kilgore, Paola A. Gehrig, Chunxiao Zhou, and Victoria L. Bae-Jump
206-206
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Corrections

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28858

Maria Lauda Tomasi, Carla Cossu, Ylenia Spissu, Andrea Floris, Minjung Ryoo, Ainhoa Iglesias-Ara, Qiang Wang, Stephen J. Pandol, Neil A. Bhowmick, Ekihiro Seki, Edwin M. Posadas, and Shelly C. Lu
207-208
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28859

Joel Ohana, Uziel Sandler, Benjamin A. Weinberg, Stephen Liu, and Yoram Devary
209-209
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28857

Nobuo Horikoshi, Raj K. Pandita, Kalpana Mujoo, Shashank Hambarde, Dharmendra Sharma, Abid R. Mattoo, Sharmistha Chakraborty, Vijaya Charaka, Clayton R. Hunt, and Tej K. Pandita
210-211
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28853

Dipankar Pramanik, Nathaniel R. Campbell, Samarjit Das, Sonal Gupta, Venugopal Chenna, Savita Bisht, Polina Sysa-Shah, Djahida Bedja, Collins Karikari, Charles Steenbergen, Kathleen L. Gabrielson, Amarnath Maitra, and Anirban Maitra
212-213
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28870

Nadire Özenver, Mohamed Saeed, Lütfiye Ömur Demirezer, and Thomas Efferth
214-215
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Research Papers

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28877

Navkirat Kahlon, Nahush Bansal, Sujatha Baddam, Jaisingh Rajput, and Zaheer Qureshi
216-225
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Case Reports

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28863

Cameron B. Speyer, Kyle D. Klingbeil, Manando Nakasaki, Sarah M. Dry, Arun S. Singh, Karo K. Arzoo, Fritz C. Eilber, and Joseph G. Crompton
226-231
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Editorial

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28874

Arnab Sarkar, and Yashbir Singh-Wolkenhauer
232-235
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Case Reports

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28862

Bolat Shalabaev, Svetlana Kurash, Aibar Nurzhanov, Dulat Serikbaiuly, Bayram Kochiev, Almira Manatova, Zhandos Burkitbayev, and Zhuldyz Kuanysh
236-243
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Corrections

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28872

Flavio Fazioli, Gianluca Colella, Roberta Miceli, Mariano Giuseppe Di Salvatore, Michele Gallo, Serena Boccella, Annarosaria De Chiara, Carlo Ruosi, and Filomena de Nigris
244-245
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Retraction

https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28881

Zhao Li, Wenzhuo Zhu, Liwen Xiong, Xiaobo Yu, Xi Chen, and Qiang Lin
246-246
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https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28882

Lan Zhang, Jian-Hua Wang, Rong-Xin Liang, Shu-Ting Huang, Jing Xu, Lin-Jing Yuan, Long Huang, Yun Zhou, Xing-Juan Yu, Shao-Yun Wu, Rong-Zhen Luo, Jing-Ping Yun, Wei-Hua Jia, and Min Zheng
247-247
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