Exploration of Targeted Anti-tumor Therapy

ANOVA table	Sum-of-squares (SS)	Degree of freedom (DF)	Mean square (MS)	F	P value
Treatment	991	10	99	0.9	P < 0.4109
Residual	204	36	5.56	-	-
Total	1,195	46	-	-	-

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Author contributions

RS: Conceptualization, Supervision. IGC: Supervision. PG: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing—original draft, Writing—review & editing. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

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