Care of the Adult Cancer Patient at the End of Life: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines

Overview

Journal ESMO Open

Publisher Elsevier

Specialty Oncology

Date 2021 Sep 3

PMID 34474810

Citations 50

Authors

G B Crawford

T Dzierzanowski

K Hauser

P Larkin

A I Luque-Blanco

I Murphy

C M Puchalski

C I Ripamonti

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