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Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and cancer: do they really look similar?

BACKGROUND: The aim of this opinion article is to understand to what extent idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) can be considered, in its clinical and pathogenic features, similar to cancer. Indeed, IPF has common risk factors with cancer, a low survival, and, most importantly, epigenetic and geneti...

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Autor principal: Vancheri, Carlo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4581087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26399408
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0478-1