'Hitting you over the head': oncologists' disclosure of prognosis to advanced cancer patients.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Bioethics

• Publication date

  2003-11-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1111/1467-8519.00330PMID 12812182
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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