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“It can't be very important because it comes and goes”—patients' accounts of intermittent symptoms preceding a pancreatic cancer diagnosis: a qualitative study

OBJECTIVE: This article explores how people with pancreatic cancer interpreted prediagnostic signs and symptoms, and what triggered them to seek medical help for symptoms that occurred intermittently. DESIGN: Thematic analysis of prediagnostic symptom descriptions drawn from a qualitative interview...

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Autores principales: Evans, Julie, Chapple, Alison, Salisbury, Helen, Corrie, Pippa, Ziebland, Sue
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3932002/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24549161
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004215