Chronic Arm Morbidity After Curative Breast Cancer Treatment: Prevalence and Impact on Quality of Life
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- 15 October 2002
- journal article
- psychosocial and-quality-of-life-issues
- Published by American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Journal of Clinical Oncology
- Vol. 20 (20) , 4242-4248
- https://doi.org/10.1200/jco.2002.09.018
Abstract
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence of and contributing factors for chronic arm morbidity including lymphedema in breast cancer patients after treatment and to assess the impact of arm morbidity o...Keywords
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