Continuing: Biology of Cachexia
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Continuing: Biology of cachexia.
I would like to comment briefly on the issue raised by Dr. Wheeler (1) with reference to the review by Tisdale (2) on the use of hydrazine sulfate for the treatment of patients with cancer cachexia. The point, in my opinion, is not whether or not hydrazine sulfate was effective in the clinical trials reported by the authors but whether its use in that context was appropriate. We know, in fact, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0027-8874,1460-2105
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/91.12.1077