High-cost imaging in elderly patients with stage IV cancer.

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Published in J Natl Cancer Inst on July 31, 2012

Authors

Yue-Yung Hu1, Alvin C Kwok, Wei Jiang, Nathan Taback, Elizabeth T Loggers, Gladys V Ting, Stuart R Lipsitz, Jane C Weeks, Caprice C Greenberg

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Surgery and Public Health, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.

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