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A population-based study of the effectiveness of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus conventional fractionated radiotherapy for clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer patients Cover

A population-based study of the effectiveness of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus conventional fractionated radiotherapy for clinical stage I non-small cell lung cancer patients

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|Dec 2017

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/raon-2017-0058 | Journal eISSN: 1581-3207 | Journal ISSN: 1318-2099
Language: English
Page range: 181 - 188
Submitted on: Jul 28, 2017
Accepted on: Sep 18, 2017
Published on: Dec 7, 2017
Published by: Association of Radiology and Oncology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 times per year

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