Do elderly people with lung cancer benefit from palliative radiotherapy?
- 31 August 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Lung Cancer
- Vol. 49 (2) , 193-202
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2005.01.010
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