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Original Articles: Clinical Oncology

Shifting gears to differentiation agents in acute promyelocytic leukemia with resource constraints—a cohort study

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Pages 1050-1055 | Received 03 Mar 2022, Accepted 30 Jul 2022, Published online: 11 Aug 2022

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