Cancer-related fatigue: epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment.

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  2012

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  Deutsches Ärzteblatt International

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  2012-03-01

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  Medicine

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  DOI 10.3238/arztebl.2012.0161PMID 22461866PMCID PMC3314239
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