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Radiation therapy

A comparison of morbidity following conformal versus intensity-modulated radiotherapy for urinary bladder cancer

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Pages 1321-1328 | Received 28 Apr 2014, Accepted 21 May 2014, Published online: 01 Jul 2014

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