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Elevated PRAME expression: what does this mean for treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma?

    Miroslaw J Szczepanski

    Department of Clinical Immunology, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland and Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry, Warsaw Medical University, Warsaw, Poland

    &
    Theresa L Whiteside

    * Author for correspondence

    Departments of Pathology, Immunology & Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA.

    Published Online:https://doi.org/10.2217/bmm.13.68
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