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9 citations,
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Modern skin cancer treatments can cause skin side effects and hair loss, affecting patients' quality of life.
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January 2018 in “Journal of the advanced practitioner in oncology” Older patients with advanced kidney cancer can be managed with a drug called Sunitinib.
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266 citations,
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