T1 high-grade bladder cancer recurring after BCG therapy: a curative alternative to radical cystectomy exists. Con
Phillip J Gray1, William U Shipley, Jason A Efstathiou
1Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Oncology (Williston Park, N.Y.)
|November 29, 2013
Abstract
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