Use of palliative chemotherapy in South Africa: National survey of paediatric oncologists and experience in a single unit
BACKGROUND: Palliative chemotherapy is cancer-directed therapy, which aims at stopping or slowing down the progression of the malignancy even though it may not have any potential for remission or cure. In South Africa, delayed diagnosis of childhood cancer is a common problem for a variety of reason...
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Format: | Dissertation |
Language: | English |
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University of Cape Town
2020
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32464 |