Prophylactic cranial irradiation in patients with inoperable carcinoma of the lung: Preliminary report of a cooperative trial
β Scribed by James D. Cox; Zbigniew Petrovich; Camilo Paig; Kenneth Stanley
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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