Should Complex Cancer Patients Requiring High-Risk Surgery Shoot for the Stars?

Fahima Dossa^{1

2}, Nancy N Baxter^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Editorial

Fahima Dossa et al. JNCI Cancer Spectr. 2020.

. 2020 Jul 7;4(5):pkaa061.

doi: 10.1093/jncics/pkaa061. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Fahima Dossa^{1

2}, Nancy N Baxter^{2

3}

¹ Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
² Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
³ Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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