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Chemotherapy near the end of life: a retrospective single-centre analysis of patients’ charts
BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy near the end of life is an issue frequently discussed nowadays. The concern is that chemotherapy could cause more harm than good in a palliative situation; this is even truer as the patient nears death. The objective of our study is to evaluate the aggressiveness of patient...
Autores principales: | Adam, Hanny, Hug, Sonja, Bosshard, Georg |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4051375/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24917696 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-13-26 |
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