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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Humoral immune response to MUC1 and to the Thomsen-Friedenreich (TF) glycotope in patients with gastric cancer: Relation to survival

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Pages 316-323 | Received 15 May 2006, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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