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Clinical potential of gene-directed enzyme prodrug therapy to improve radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients

✍ Scribed by Alice Vajda; Laure Marignol; Ruth Foley; Thomas H. Lynch; Mark Lawler; Donal Hollywood

Book ID: 116395559
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Weight: 738 KB
Volume: 37
Category: Article
ISSN: 0305-7372
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2011.03.003

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