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Chapter 71 - Quality of Life: Can We Really Make a Difference?

from Section 17 - Novel Cell Therapies and Manipulations: Ready for Prime-Time?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2017

By
Nandita Khera  and
Navneet S. Majhail
Edited by
Hillard M. Lazarus ,
Robert Peter Gale ,
Armand Keating ,
Andrea Bacigalupo ,
Reinhold Munker  and
Kerry Atkinson
Edited in association with
Syed Ali Abutalib
Hillard M. Lazarus
Affiliation:
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio
Robert Peter Gale
Affiliation:
Imperial College London
Armand Keating
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
Andrea Bacigalupo
Affiliation:
Ospedale San Martino, Genoa
Reinhold Munker
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University, Shreveport
Kerry Atkinson
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
Syed Ali Abutalib
Affiliation:
Midwestern Regional Medical Center, Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Chicago
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Hematopoietic Cell Transplants
Concepts, Controversies and Future Directions
 , pp. 697 - 704
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2000

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