Is Wilms tumor a candidate neoplasia for treatment with WNT/β-catenin pathway modulators?--A report from the renal tumors biology-driven drug development workshop.

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Published in Mol Cancer Ther on November 20, 2013

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Daniela Perotti1, Peter Hohenstein, Italia Bongarzone, Mariana Maschietto, Mark Weeks, Paolo Radice, Kathy Pritchard-Jones

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1: Corresponding Author: Kathy Pritchard-Jones, Hugh and Catherine Stevenson Professor of Pediatric Oncology, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom. k.pritchard-jones@ucl.ac.uk.

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