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Editorial
. 2018 Jun 7:2018:7362585.
doi: 10.1155/2018/7362585. eCollection 2018.

Oncology: Management of Elderly Cancer Patients

Meritxell Arenas  1 , Nam Nguyen  2 , Pierfrancesco Franco  3 , Ugur Selek  4 , Angeles Rovirosa  5 , Sebastia' Sabater  6
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Editorial

Oncology: Management of Elderly Cancer Patients

Meritxell Arenas et al. Biomed Res Int. .
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