How (and why) to ask the older cancer patient about sexual health and sexual minority status
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Sexual Minority Status and Aging
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geriatric Oncology
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1879-4068
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgo.2019.08.003