Determinants of chronic fatigue in disease-free breast cancer patients: a cross-sectional study.

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Published in Ann Oncol on April 01, 2002

Authors

P Servaes1, S Verhagen, G Bleijenberg

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1: Department of Medical Psychology, University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. P.Servaes@cksmps.azn.nl

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