Palliative Care in Oncology: Past, Present, and Future.
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This aphorism is as timely today as when it was first written. Although dramatic progress has occurred on some fronts, cure rates for many forms of adult cancers have not improved significantly in 50 years. In the absence of a cure, what does modern medicine have to offer the patient with cancer? This issue of Cancer Control seeks to answer that question by describing recent developments in the field of palliative care.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
دوره 3 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996