Teenage and Young Adult Cancer: A Low-Hanging Fruit or the Final Frontier?

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Indian J Med Paediatr Oncol 2019; 40(02): 163-164
DOI: 10.4103/ijmpo.ijmpo_119_19

Editorial

Colonel Prakash Chitalkar

Department of Medical Oncology, Sri Aurobindo Medical College and Postgraduate Institute, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

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