"Shopping Around" for Treatment is Not a Solution to Cancer Backlog

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2022 Oct 10

PMID 36216385

Authors

Ajay Aggarwal

Fiona M Walter

Richard Sullivan

Jan van der Meulen

Affiliations

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