Adjuvant chemotherapy use for Medicare beneficiaries with stage II colon cancer.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on October 01, 2002

Authors

Deborah Schrag1, Sheryl Rifas-Shiman, Leonard Saltz, Peter B Bach, Colin B Begg

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10021, USA. schragd@mskc.org

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