Trials in palliative treatment—have the goal posts been moved?
- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Lancet Oncology
- Vol. 9 (3), 186-187
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s1470-2045(08)70041-x
Abstract
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