They also serve who only stand and wait: Do individual clinical researchers, too? Hoping for individual patient data as public domain [16]

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1334-1335

  Matsuo, Keitaro ^a   Hotta, Katsuyuki ^b   Ueoka, Hiroshi ^b  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RECORD; META ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; NOTE;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; META-ANALYSIS;

EID: 14544290553     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2005.05.273     Document Type: Letter

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