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Cancer Patients Not Receiving Vital Flu and Pneumococcus Vaccines
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Title Cancer Patients Not Receiving Vital Flu and Pneumococcus Vaccines
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/565168?src=rss
Description Oncologists are reportedly not recommending key vaccines, assuming primary care or other docs are taking care of it, and patients are slipping through the cracks. Medscape Medical News
Category Articles > Allergy and Clinical Immunology
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Date Nov 6, 2007
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