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Chemotherapy Use at the End of Life in Uganda

PURPOSE: Avoiding chemotherapy during the last 30 days of life has become a goal of cancer care in the United States and Europe, yet end-of-life chemotherapy administration remains a common practice worldwide. The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of and factors predicting end-of-...

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Autores principales:	Low, Daniel, Merkel, Emily C., Menon, Manoj, Lyman, Gary H., Ddungu, Henry, Namukwaya, Elizabeth, Leng, Mhoira, Casper, Corey
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	American Society of Clinical Oncology 2017
Materias:	ORIGINAL REPORTS
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735970/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29244988 http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/JGO.2016.007385

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