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Letter to the Editor

Stage redistribution and survival among Medicare beneficiaries before and after the approval of positron emission tomography scan for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

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Pages 1544-1546 | Received 18 Jun 2014, Accepted 14 Sep 2014, Published online: 05 Nov 2014

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