## Abstract Lung cancer patients suffer a 15% overall survival despite advances in chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery. This unacceptably low survival rate is due to the usual finding of advanced disease at diagnosis. However, multimodality strategies using conventional therapies only mini
Therapy of lung cancer
โ Scribed by V. V. Getman; M. R. Mueller
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 93 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-544X
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