## Background and Objectives: The extreme drug resistance (EDR) assay is an in vitro chemoresistance assay performed on tumor samples grown in culture and is claimed to predict drugs unlikely to produce response. Its clinical value in patients with epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) has recently been
Response to chemotherapy in a child with primary bronchopulmonary leiomyosarcoma
โ Scribed by Ferrari, Andrea ;Collini, Paola ;Casanova, Michela ;Meazza, Cristina ;Podda, Marta ;Mazza, Elena A.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-1532
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