Clinical prediction of survival is more accurate than the Karnofsky performance status in estimating life span of terminally ill cancer patients
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in European Journal Of Cancer
- Vol. 30 (6) , 764-766
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0959-8049(94)90289-5
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