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Erin Forbes1, Amanda L Baker1, Ben Britton2

  • 1School of Medicine and Public Health, The University of Newcastle Faculty of Health and Medicine, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.

BMJ Open
|October 11, 2020
PubMed
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Keywords:
adult radiotherapyanxiety disordersradiation oncology

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