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Posttraumatic growth after breast cancer: patient, partner, and couple perspectives

Sharon Manne1, Jamie Ostroff, Gary Winkel

  • 1Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA 19111, USA. SL-Manne@fccc.edu

Psychosomatic Medicine
|June 9, 2004
PubMed
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