Thinking Systematically About the Off-Label Use of Cancer Drugs and Combinations for Patients Who Have Exhausted Proven Therapies
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Thinking Systematically About the Off-Label Use of Cancer Drugs and Combinations for Patients Who Have Exhausted Proven Therapies SHAMMAILANKODY, VINAY PRASAD Myeloma Service, Division of HematologicMalignancies,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; Division of HematologyOncology, Knight Cancer Institute, Department of PublicHealth andPreventiveMedicine, and Center forHealth CareEthics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA Disclosures of potential conflicts of interest may be found at the end of this article.
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