Symptom and quality of life results of an international randomised phase III study of adjuvant vaccination with Bec2/BCG in responding patients with limited disease small-cell lung cancer.

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Published in Eur J Cancer on October 01, 2008

Authors

Andrew Bottomley1, Channa Debruyne, Enriqueta Felip, Michael Millward, Luc Thiberville, Giannicola D'Addario, Lisa Rome, Petr Zatloukal, Corneel Coens, Giuseppe Giaccone

Author Affiliations

1: Quality of Life Department, European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer, EORTC Headquarters,AISBL-IVZW, Avenue E. Mounierlaan, 83/11, Brussel 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium. andrew.bottomley@eortc.be

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