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Beyond palliative chemotherapy: providing hope in an era of unrealistic expectations and medical-care rationing

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

    Maurie Markman

  2. Department of Hematology/Oncology, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, One Clinic Center, 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 author The Editors

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Markman, M. Beyond palliative chemotherapy: providing hope in an era of unrealistic expectations and medical-care rationing. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol 119, 74–75 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01209659

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