Although the incidence of bladder cancer has increased in recent years, survival has also improved. Chemotherapy has made a substantial impact on this disease and now is used in patients with advanced or metastatic disease as well as in select patients with high-risk muscle invasive disease. While c
Chemotherapy for Advanced Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urothelium: Cisplatin or Carboplatin?
✍ Scribed by Stéphane Culine
- Book ID
- 113609793
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 52
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-2838
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