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Lung Cancer and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: From Epigenetics to drug therapy
 
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Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
 
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Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Laboratory of Clinical Virology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
 
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Department of Thoracic Medicine, Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
 
 
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Katerina M. Antoniou   

Department of Thoracic Medicine and Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Pneumonology, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion 71110 Crete, Greece
 
 
Pneumon 2015;28(1):23-25
 
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