Proposal for a novel methodology to screen and score cost versus survival for anticancer drugs in metastatic disease: could cost weigh in evaluation?

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Published in J Oncol Pract on July 01, 2012

Authors

Helmy M Guirgis1

Author Affiliations

1: University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. Cancerguir@gmail.com

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