The Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group has conducted a retrospective review of their experience of 96 patients with a tissue diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma treated between 1972 and 1980 on four separate sarcoma chemotherapy protocols. Thirty-two of the 96 patients were diagnosed and treated in
Changing risk groups for malignant mesothelioma
โ Scribed by Ace Allen; Michael Huncharek
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Volume
- 70
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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