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. 1994 Jul;70(1):1–5. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1994.240

Quality of life assessment in clinical cancer research.

M Olschewski, G Schulgen, M Schumacher, D G Altman
PMCID: PMC2033334  PMID: 8018517

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