Trajectory of performance status and symptom scores for patients with cancer during the last six months of life.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on February 07, 2011

Authors

Hsien Seow1, Lisa Barbera, Rinku Sutradhar, Doris Howell, Deborah Dudgeon, Clare Atzema, Ying Liu, Amna Husain, Jonathan Sussman, Craig Earle

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. seowh@mcmaster.ca

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