An initiative to end-of-life decisions in cancer care

Internet Journal of Pain, Symptom Control and Palliative Care

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Gupta, Deepak ^a   Goyal, Guarav Nirwani ^a   Chauhan, Himanshu ^a   Mishra, Seema ^a   Bhatnagar, Sushma ^a  

^a INSTITUTE ROTARY CANCER HOSPITAL   (India)

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