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Patient choice, cost, and survival of critically ill cancer patients: a societal dilemma

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  1. Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, 44195, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Maurie Markman

  2. Department of Hematology/Medical Oncology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 9500 Euclid Avenue, 44195, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Maurie Markman

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The “Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology” publishes in loose succession “Editorials” and “Guest editorials” on current and/or controversial problems in experimental and clinical oncology. These contributions represent exclusively the personal opinion of the authors The Editors

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Markman, M. Patient choice, cost, and survival of critically ill cancer patients: a societal dilemma. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 120, 3–4 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01200716

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