Progress in endocrine therapy for breast carcinoma
โ Scribed by Gabriel N. Hortobagyi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 79 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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โฆ Synopsis
As Cancer commemorates 50 years of continuous publication, this article is one of a series of summaries on the current status of some of the oncologic issues reported in the first volume in 1948.
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