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Manish A. Shah, MD, on Gastric Cancer: Results From the RAINFALL Trial

2018 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

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Manish A. Shah, MD, of Weill Cornell Medicine, discusses phase III study findings on cisplatin plus capecitabine or fluorouracil with or without ramucirumab as first-line therapy in patients with metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma (Abstract 5).



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