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Amelie Harle, MD, on Aprepitant for Cough in Lung Cancer

2015 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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Amelie Harle, MD, of the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, discusses a clinical trial––the first of its kind—designed to assess the efficacy of an antitussive in patients with lung cancer (Abstract 2).



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