Upper-body morbidity following breast cancer treatment is common, may persist longer-term and adversely influences quality of life
Open Access
- 1 January 2010
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
- Vol. 8 (1), 92-7
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7525-8-92
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