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Eric Roeland, MD, on Preventing Chemotherapy-Induced Vomiting

2018 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium

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Eric Roeland, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the wide variation among physicians in preventing vomiting from highly emetogenic chemotherapy (Abstract 74).



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