Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy

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The authors acknowledge Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida, for providing the entire infrastructure to complete this project.

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M Singh and DJ contributed in conceptualization, design of the work, resourcing, interpretation of data. M Singh, DJ, VA, DP, M Sharma, and PP contributed to writing—original draft, and writing—review & editing; M Singh, SM, and R contributed in supervision; M Singh, DJ, SM and R contributed in data curation, and validation.

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