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Jennifer S. Temel, MD, on The Changing Conversation Around Prognostication

2016 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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Jennifer S. Temel, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses increasing prognostic uncertainty in light of targeted treatments and immunotherapies, and the difficulty predicting who will benefit.



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