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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Sick leave of spouses to cancer patients before and after diagnosis

Katarina Sjövall Department of Oncology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Bo Attner Southern Regional Health Care Committee, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Thor Lithman Southern Regional Health Care Committee, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Musculoskeletal Sciences, Department of Orthopedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Dennis Noreen Southern Regional Health Care Committee, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Musculoskeletal Sciences, Department of Orthopedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Barbro Gunnars Department of Oncology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Bibbi Thomé Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Lars Lidgren Musculoskeletal Sciences, Department of Orthopedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Håkan Olsson Department of Oncology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden; Southern Regional Health Care Committee, Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Martin Englund Musculoskeletal Sciences, Department of Orthopedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden; Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Pages 467-473 | Received 03 Sep 2009, Accepted 25 Jan 2010, Published online: 30 Mar 2010

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