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Tolerability of the oral fluoropyrimidine S-1 after hand-foot syndrome-related discontinuation of capecitabine in western cancer patients

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Pages 1023-1026 | Received 28 Nov 2016, Accepted 28 Dec 2016, Published online: 19 Jan 2017

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