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1 Department of Radiation Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Osmangazi University, Eskişehir,
Turkey
Tumor Discovery, 025200039 https://doi.org/10.36922/TD025200039
Received: 15 May 2025 | Accepted: 22 May 2025 | Published online: 10 June 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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The author declares that she has no conflict of interest.
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