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Combination chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil and dacarbazine in advanced medullary thyroid cancer, a possible alternative?

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Pages 1064-1066 | Received 10 Feb 2016, Accepted 18 Feb 2016, Published online: 13 May 2016

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