Psychiatric morbidity in terminally ill cancer patients
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0008-543X,1097-0142
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19970501)79:9<1848::aid-cncr37>3.0.co;2-w