Cancer and treatment effects on job task performance for gynecological cancer survivors.
BACKGROUND: Over 91,000 new cases of gynecological cancers are expected to be diagnosed in 2013 in the US alone. As cancer detection technology and treatment options improve, the number of working-age cancer survivors continues to grow. OBJECTIVE: To describe US gynecological cancer survivors' perce...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 433 - 439 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2013
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