Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 188-195 , May 2007

Kidney cancer: Past, present, and future

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doi: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2007.03.006

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations
Volume 25, Issue 3 , Pages 188-195 , May 2007