Long-term effects of widowhood after terminal cancer: a Swedish nationwide follow-up.

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Published in Scand J Public Health on January 01, 2003

Authors

Unnur Valdimarsdóttir1, Asgeir R Helgason, Carl-Johan Fürst, Jan Adolfsson, Gunnar Steineck

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, Institute of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institute, Box 4402, 10268 Stockholm, Sweden. Unnur.Valdimarsdottir@onkpat.ki.se

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