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Hello. I’m Dr Maurie Markman from City of Hope. I wanted to briefly discuss a very important paper. This is one that probably didn’t get as much attention as I believe it should. It looks at a very important clinically relevant question, and one that might very much say, can we do more such studies but only do them faster?
This was a trial reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology earlier this year titled, “Radiation Therapy With or Without Cisplatin for Local Recurrences of Endometrial Cancer: Results From an NRG Oncology/GOG Prospective Randomized Multicenter Clinical Study.”
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