Palliative Radiotherapy for Painful Bone Metastases
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Radiotherapy in palliative treatment of painful bone metastases
Received 4 April 2009 Accepted 25 August 2009 Correspondence to: Andreja Gojkovič Horvat, M.D., Department of Radiation Oncology, Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Zaloška 2, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Phone: +386 1 5879 110; Fax: + 386 1 5879 400; E-mail: [email protected] types of cancer with systemic dissemination, especially breast cancer, prostate and lung cancer, with the incidence of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdw510