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. 2001 Sep;10(3):193–196. doi: 10.1136/qhc.0100193..

Informing, communicating and sharing decisions with people who have cancer

A Sowden 1, C Forbes 1, V Entwistle 1, I Watt 1
PMCID: PMC1743426  PMID: 11533427

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