Looking Beyond the Numbers: Highlighting the Challenges of Population-Based Studies in Cancer Research

Affiliations

¹ The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France pblanchard@mdanderson.org.
² The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

Comment

Pierre Blanchard et al. J Clin Oncol. 2016.

. 2016 Jul 1;34(19):2317-8.

doi: 10.1200/JCO.2015.66.0894. Epub 2016 Apr 25.

¹ The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX; and Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France pblanchard@mdanderson.org.
² The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

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Reply to P. Blanchard et al.
Murphy CT, Galloway TJ, Handorf EA, Egleston BL, Ridge JA. Murphy CT, et al. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Jul 1;34(19):2318-9. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2016.67.2832. Epub 2016 Apr 25. J Clin Oncol. 2016. PMID: 27114603 No abstract available.
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