Denial in cancer patients, an explorative review

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Psycho-Oncology

• Publication date

  2007-01-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1002/pon.1051PMID 16868929
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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