Maintenance chemotherapy using S-1 following definitive chemoradiotherapy in patients with N3 nasopharyngeal carcinoma
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Oncology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1748-717X
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-019-1387-9