Immunotherapy in Patients With Poor Performance Status: The Jury Is Still Out on This Special Population
Ali Raza Khaki1, Chad Glisch1, Laura A Petrillo1
1Ali Raza Khaki, MD, MS, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Chad Glisch, MD, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and Laura A. Petrillo, MD, Division of Palliative Care and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.
JCO Oncology Practice
|July 23, 2021
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