When death is imminent: where terminally ill patients with cancer prefer to die and why.

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Published in Cancer Nurs on June 01, 2003

Authors

Siew Tzuh Tang1

Author Affiliations

1: National Yang-Ming University, School of Nursing, #155, Sec. 2 Li-Nong Street, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. stang@ym.edu.tw

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