Perioperative considerations for neoadjuvant immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer
Brendon M Stiles1, Boris Sepesi2, Stephen R Broderick3
1Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|August 9, 2020
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