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Evaluation of patients with advanced cancer using the karnofsky performance status

✍ Scribed by Jerome W. Yates; Bruce Chalmer; F. Patrick McKegney

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1980
Tongue: English
Weight: 380 KB
Volume: 45
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19800415)45:8<2220::aid-cncr2820450835>3.0.co;2-q

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