For breast cancer prognosis, immunoglobulin kappa chain surfaces to the top

Theresa L Whiteside1, Soldano Ferrone

  • 1Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA. whitesidetl@upmc.edu

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