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Cancer treatment and the older patient.
In this issue of Clinical Cancer Research, Townsley et al. report the toxicities they observed in 401 patients enrolled on 19 phase I and II trials of targeted therapeutic agents as part of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) early therapeutics development program (1). They compared toxicities between younger patients (V64 years) and older patients (z65 years). They saw no significant differe...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Cancer Research
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1078-0432,1557-3265
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-06-0364