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Special Report

New avenues in pancreatic cancer: exploiting microRNAs as predictive biomarkers and new approaches to target aberrant metabolism

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Pages 1081-1090 | Received 03 Aug 2019, Accepted 12 Nov 2019, Published online: 24 Nov 2019

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