Should radiotherapy be avoided or delivered differently in elderly patients with rectal cancer?
- 1 October 2007
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in European Journal Of Cancer
- Vol. 43 (15) , 2301-2306
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejca.2007.06.014
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