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Pregnancy-associated lung cancer: a clinical and scientific challenge more than treatment dilemma
Weitao Zhuang1,2, Guibin Qiao1
1Department of Thoracic Surgery, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China.
Journal of Thoracic Disease
|October 18, 2021
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