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Do elderly patients have a worse outcome in response to platinum-based therapy for metastatic urothelial cancer?

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boxed-textBamias A et al. (2005) The outcome of elderly patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma after platinum-based combination chemotherapy. Ann Oncol 16: 307–313

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