Health-related quality of life and health care utilisation among older long-term cancer survivors: a population-based study.

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Published in Eur J Cancer on August 08, 2007

Authors

Floortje Mols1, Jan Willem W Coebergh, Lonneke V van de Poll-Franse

Author Affiliations

1: Center of Research on Psychology in Somatic Diseases, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. F.Mols@uvt.nl <F.Mols@uvt.nl>

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