Treatment of Early Breast Cancer with Primary Radiation Therapy: Rationale, Results, and Techniques

Overview

Journal Bull N Y Acad Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1982 Mar 1

PMID 6956406

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Authors

J B Weissberg

L R Prosnitz

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