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Symptom Burden Among Cancer Survivors: Impact of Age and Comorbidity

Jun J. Mao, Katrina Armstrong, Marjorie A. Bowman, Sharon X. Xie, Rachel Kadakia and John T. Farrar
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine September 2007, 20 (5) 434-443; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2007.05.060225

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