Cancer Staging for Rare Cancers: Should the American Joint Committee on Cancer Have a Separate Staging Classification for External Auditory Canal Cancer?

Overview

Journal Ann Transl Med

Publisher AME Publishing Company

Date 2019 Apr 30

PMID 31032293

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Authors

Jonathan Robert Clark

Hubert Low

Ruta Gupta

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