Chemobrain experienced by breast cancer survivors: a meta-ethnography study investigating research and care implications.

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Published in PLoS One on September 26, 2014

Authors

Maryam Hafsah Selamat1, Siew Yim Loh2, Lynette Mackenzie3, Janette Vardy4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Postgraduate Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Discipline of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
3: Discipline of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
4: Concord Cancer Centre, Concord Repatriation and General Hospital, Concord, Sydney, Australia; Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

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