Three months treatment with chemotherapy and radiotherapy for small cell lung cancer
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Chemotherapy and late course three dimensional conformal radiotherapy for treatment of patients with stage III non- small cell lung cancer.
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Cancer
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0007-0920,1532-1827
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1985.197