Palliative Care: the World Health Organization's global perspective.

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Published in J Pain Symptom Manage on August 01, 2002

Authors

Cecilia Sepúlveda1, Amanda Marlin, Tokuo Yoshida, Andreas Ullrich

Author Affiliations

1: Program on Cancer Control, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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