P2.16-022 Initiative for Early Lung Cancer Research on Treatment: Pilot Implementation
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Global cancer research initiative
Cancer is an increasing problem for low- and middle-income countries undergoing an epidemiologic transition from dominantly acute communicable disease to more frequent chronic disease with increased public health successes in the former domain. Progress against cancer in high-income countries has been modest and has come at enormous expense. There are several well-conceived global policy and pl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtho.2017.09.1431