Intensive chemotherapy offers pluses, minuses in advanced endometrial cancer
5th Sep 2005, 15:16 GMT
Complex chemotherapy cocktails offer about one extra month of life to patients with end-stage endometrial cancer but also can result in severe, possibly fatal, side effects, according to the first systematic review of studies addressing the topic.
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