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Survival Rates Increasing in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
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Title Survival Rates Increasing in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703331?src=rss
Description Overall median survival has increased dramatically among patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, owing primarily to improvements in chemotherapy and surgical advances in liver resection. Medscape Medical News
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Date May 27, 2009
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