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. 2020 Jul 17;2020(1):211-214.
doi: 10.1093/emph/eoaa024. eCollection 2020.

Comments on Boddy et al. 2020: Available data suggest positive relationship between placental invasion and malignancy

Günter P Wagner  1 , Kshitiz  2 , Andre Levchenko  1
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Comments on Boddy et al. 2020: Available data suggest positive relationship between placental invasion and malignancy

Günter P Wagner et al. Evol Med Public Health. .
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Figure 1.
Malignancy rates calculated by the number of malignancies divided by the total number of neoplasias grouped by placental type. A) Malignancy rates caclulated from the SDZ data; B) Malignancy rates calculated from the SCZ and the data used in d'Souza and Wagner [4].
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