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Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names
Imprecise terminology obscures the reasons why a cancer patient might be willing to endure the potential toxicities and side‐effects of treatment. Renaming of the categories of chemotherapy is proposed here to clarify intended definitions.
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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AlphaMed Press
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553954/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28550031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0041 |
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| author | Neugut, Alfred I. Prigerson, Holly G. |
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| description | Imprecise terminology obscures the reasons why a cancer patient might be willing to endure the potential toxicities and side‐effects of treatment. Renaming of the categories of chemotherapy is proposed here to clarify intended definitions. |
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| spelling | pubmed-55539542017-08-18 Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names Neugut, Alfred I. Prigerson, Holly G. Oncologist Commentaries Imprecise terminology obscures the reasons why a cancer patient might be willing to endure the potential toxicities and side‐effects of treatment. Renaming of the categories of chemotherapy is proposed here to clarify intended definitions. AlphaMed Press 2017-05-26 2017-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5553954/ /pubmed/28550031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0041 Text en © AlphaMed Press 2017 |
| spellingShingle | Commentaries Neugut, Alfred I. Prigerson, Holly G. Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names |
| title | Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names |
| title_full | Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names |
| title_fullStr | Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names |
| title_full_unstemmed | Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names |
| title_short | Curative, Life‐Extending, and Palliative Chemotherapy: New Outcomes Need New Names |
| title_sort | curative, life‐extending, and palliative chemotherapy: new outcomes need new names |
| topic | Commentaries |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5553954/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28550031 http://dx.doi.org/10.1634/theoncologist.2017-0041 |
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