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  1. Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Stanford Cancer Center, Stanford, CA, USA

    Heather Wakelee

  2. Department of Internal Medicine UC Davis Cancer Center, University of California, Sacramento, CA, USA

    David R. Gandara

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Sotiria General Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Konstantinos N. Syrigos MD, PhD

  2. Royal Marsden NHS Trust Hospitals, London, UK

    Christopher M. Nutting MB BA, MD, FRCR

  3. Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Charis Roussos MD, MSc, PhD, MRS, FRCP(C)

  4. Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Charis Roussos MD, MSc, PhD, MRS, FRCP(C)

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Wakelee, H., Gandara, D.R. (2006). North American Cooperative Group Research Efforts in Lung Cancer. In: Syrigos, K.N., Nutting, C.M., Roussos, C. (eds) Tumors of the Chest. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31040-1_38

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