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Research Article

A preliminary study of a health related quality of life assessment of priority symptoms in advanced lymphoma: the National Comprehensive Cancer Network-Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy – Lymphoma Symptom Index

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Pages 1942-1946 | Received 21 Sep 2012, Accepted 24 Dec 2012, Published online: 07 Feb 2013

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