Phase 2 study of dasatinib in the treatment of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
β Scribed by Heather D. Brooks; Bonnie S. Glisson; B. Nebiyou Bekele; Lawrence E. Ginsberg; Adel El-Naggar; Kirk S. Culotta; Naoko Takebe; John Wright; Hai T. Tran; Vassiliki A. Papadimitrakopoulou
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 199 KB
- Volume
- 117
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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