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Cancer Trajectories at the End of Life: is there an effect of age and gender?

BACKGROUND: Few empirical data show the pattern of functional decline at the end of life for cancer patients, especially among older patients. METHODS: In a mortality follow-back survey (the Italian Survey of the Dying of Cancer – ISDOC) a random sample of 1,271 lay caregivers were interviewed, at a...

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Autores principales: Costantini, Massimo, Beccaro, Monica, Higginson, Irene J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2386793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18454854
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-8-127