Seminars in Oncology Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 20-30 , February 2006

Symptom Correlates in the Gero-Oncology Population

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 Supported in part by scholarships in cancer nursing DSCN-03-204-01, DSCN-03-204-03 (A.R.), and DSCN-03-200-01 (C.L.) from the American Cancer Society and by the John A. Hartford Foundation’s Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Scholarship program grant no. 04-115.

PII: S0749-2081(05)00115-4

doi: 10.1016/j.soncn.2005.10.004

Seminars in Oncology Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 1 , Pages 20-30 , February 2006

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