Practice patterns in older patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma: A medicare analysis, 2007-2015
Elizabeth Levin1, Yi Peng2, Yuanyuan Ji2
1Division of Hematology, Oncology and Transplantation, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware Street S.E, Mayo Mail Code 480, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States of America.
Journal of Geriatric Oncology
|February 22, 2020
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