DOIAbstract
Not so long ago, the treatment for extensive cancer was almost not existent. Newer medical therapies have been associated, in some malignant diseases, with considerable success and it might be reasonably expected that new drugs and better understanding of their use will be associated with further progress. However, newer medications have brought into the clinical field considerable side effects, the importance of which sometimes overshadows their efficacy. A new aspect of cancer medicine has emerged at this point: the supportive care of the patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. This form of management requires not only the knowledge and practice of general internal medicine but also the mastering of several new techniques which have been ...
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