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Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, on Palliative Radiation for Advanced Cancer and Symptomatic Bone Metastases

2015 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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Lawrence H. Einhorn, MD, of Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, discusses the ways in which a dedicated palliative radiation consult service can improve the quality of palliative cancer care (Abstract 110).



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