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While many effective interventions have been developed with the potential to significantly reduce morbidity and mortality from cancer, they are of no benefit to
Cancer care today often provides state-of-the-science biomedical treatment, but fails to address the psychological and social (psychosocial) problems associated
Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with cancer does not end with survival. Continued surveillance and
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