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Comment
. 2002 Aug;51(2):296-7.
doi: 10.1136/gut.51.2.296-a.

Current guidelines fail young patients with oesophagogastric cancer

M A Foster, S E A Attwood
Comment

Current guidelines fail young patients with oesophagogastric cancer

M A Foster et al. Gut. 2002 Aug.
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Kaplan-Meier curve of survival of oesophagogastric cancer patients in those less than 50 years of age.
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