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Cost of cancer clinical trials in elderly patients

Lodovicco Balducci University of South Florida, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa 33612, USA. [email protected]
Pages 505-511 | Published online: 02 Mar 2005

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