Pharmacologic Therapy for Cancer Anorexia-Cachexia Syndrome
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Nutrition
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2289-0203,2383-7101
DOI: 10.15747/jcn.2015.7.2.36