Association between the gut microbiota and patient responses to cancer immune checkpoint inhibitors (Review)
- Authors:
- Jian Wang
- Hong-Ru Yang
- Dai-Jie Wang
- Xing-Xia Wang
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Affiliations: Department of Oncology, Luzhou People's Hospital, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China, Department of Neurology, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan 646000, P.R. China - Published online on: October 8, 2020 https://doi.org/10.3892/ol.2020.12205
- Article Number: 342
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Copyright: © Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution License.
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