Trial designs for personalizing cancer care: a systematic review and classification.

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Published in Clin Cancer Res on June 20, 2013

Authors

Parvin Tajik1, Aleiko H Zwinderman, Ben W Mol, Patrick M Bossuyt

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. P.Tajik@amc.uva.nl

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