Interleukin-2- and interferon alfa-2a-based immunochemotherapy in advanced renal cell carcinoma: a Prospectively Randomized Trial of the German Cooperative Renal Carcinoma Chemoimmunotherapy Group (DGCIN).

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Published in J Clin Oncol on February 23, 2004

Authors

J Atzpodien1, H Kirchner, U Jonas, L Bergmann, H Schott, H Heynemann, P Fornara, S A Loening, J Roigas, S C Müller, H Bodenstein, S Pomer, B Metzner, U Rebmann, R Oberneder, M Siebels, T Wandert, T Puchberger, M Reitz, Prospectively Randomized Trial of the German Cooperative Renal Carcinoma Chemoimmunotherapy Group (DGCIN)

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1: Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany. Sekrprofatzpodien@yahoo.de

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