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Inhibitors of growth factor receptors, signaling pathways and angiogenesis as therapeutic molecular agents

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Presented as Session VI of the First International Symposium on Cancer Metastasis and the Lymphovascular System. April 28–30, 2005, San Francisco, CA; Chaired by Michael S. Gordon and Jocelyn Holash.

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Holash, J., Thurston, G., Rudge, J.S. et al. Inhibitors of growth factor receptors, signaling pathways and angiogenesis as therapeutic molecular agents. Cancer Metastasis Rev 25, 243–252 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10555-006-8504-6

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