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St Vincent's scandal: what's the protocol for chemotherapy and are low doses less effective?

  • Written by Ian Haines, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, AMREP Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne & Senior Medical Oncologist and Palliative Care Physician, Melbourne Oncology Group, Cabrini Haematology and Oncology Centre, Wattletree Road, M
imageSome cancer patients at St Vincent's hospital were treated with off-protocol doses of a chemotherapy drug.Alastair Gilfillan/Flickr, CC BY

The New South Wales government this week released the final report of its investigation into chemotherapy “underdosing” of patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer in a Sydney hospital.

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