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Barrett's Esophagus in Time and Space: A Methylation Panel for Tracking Esophageal Cancer
Daniel H Jacobson1, Rebecca C Fitzgerald
1Department of Oncology, Early Cancer Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|April 7, 2025
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