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Background Combination therapy of gemcitabine with cisplatin (GC) is a standard first-line therapy for unresectable or recurrent biliary tract cancer (BTC). S-1 is often used as a second-line therapy in clinical ...
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Correction to: Clinical and radiation dose-volume factors related to pneumonitis after treatment with radiation and durvalumab in locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Corrections are needed to the original version of this article. In Table 2, the “Odds ratio” of the variables “Lower lobe vs. Upper lobe” and “≥26 vs. <26” should be 2.250 instead of 2250 and 2.250 instead of ...
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Open AccessAnalyzing Promising Researchers Using Network Centralities of Co-authorship Networks from Academic Literature
We propose a new way of using the betweenness centrality measure with co-author networks from an academic literature database to evaluate young researchers. It is difficult to discover and evaluate promising y...
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Changes in Perception of Induced Motion Based on Voluntary Eye Movements in an Attentional Task
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