Recent Advances and Prospects for Multimodality Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer

Seminars in Radiation Oncology - Tập 26 - Trang 320-337 - 2016
Awalpreet S. Chadha1, Allison Khoo1, Maureen L. Aliru1, Harpreet K. Arora2, Jillian R. Gunther1, Sunil Krishnan1
1Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer, Houston, TX
2Department of Internal Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

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