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Ashleigh C McEvoy1, Lydia Warburton2, Zeyad Al-Ogaili3

  • 1School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup, WA, 6027, Australia.

BMC Cancer
|July 11, 2018
PubMed
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Circulating tumour DNADroplet digital PCRMelanomaMetabolic tumour burdenTumour lesion glycolysisctDNA

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