Attitudes of medical oncologists toward palliative care for patients with advanced and incurable cancer
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Attitudes of Medical Oncologists Toward Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced and Incurable Cancer Report on a Survey by the European Society of Medical Oncology Taskforce on Palliative and Supportive Care
2 Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University Medical School, Tel Aviv, Israel. The following members of the European Society of Medical Oncology Taskforce on Palliative and Supportive Care participated in this study: Maurizio Tonato (Policlinico Divisione Oncologia Medica, Perugia, Italy); K. Winand Lange (Johanniter–Krankenhaus Rheinhausen, Duisburg, Germany); Herbert Kappauf (Institut für Medi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11815