The Quality of Cancer Care : Does the Literature Support the Rhetoric ?
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Supported in part by the following grants: a Faculty Research Award from the American Cancer Society (BEH); a Faculty Scholar Award, Project on Death in America, Open Society, New York (TJS); the Office of Cancer Communications, National Cancer Institute (RFP CO 94388-63) (TJS); the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine, and the Virginia Commonwealth University Outcomes Research Center.
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