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How should we manage non-small-cell lung cancer “not-otherwise-specified”?

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  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Takatsuki General Hospital, 1-3-13 Kosobe-cho, Takatsuki, Osaka, 569-1192, Japan

    Young Hak Kim & Yasuhiro Funada

  2. Department of Respiratory Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

    Yoshihiro Nishimura

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Kim, Y.H., Nishimura, Y. & Funada, Y. How should we manage non-small-cell lung cancer “not-otherwise-specified”?. Med Oncol 38, 82 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-021-01531-9

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