Cancer Antigen 125 Levels can be Used as a Tumor Marker for Moni - toring Patients with Endometrial Serous Carcinoma ?
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C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Hegazy MW, Elsawy WH, Tolba A, Shoukri M (2016) Cancer Antigen 125 Levels can be Used as a Tumor Marker for Monitoring Patients with Endometrial Serous Carcinoma?. Int J Cancer Clin Res 3:075 Received: October 31, 2016: Accepted: November 28, 2016: Published: November 30, 2016 Copyright: © 2016 Hegazy MW, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hegazy et al. Int J Cancer Clin Res 2016, 3:075
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