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Racial disparities and survival for nonsmall-cell lung cancer in a large cohort of black and white elderly patients

✍ Scribed by Dale Hardy; Rui Xia; Chih-Chin Liu; Janice N. Cormier; Zhannat Nurgalieva; Xianglin L. Du

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 149 KB
Volume: 115
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24521

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