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Volunteers in an Oncology Support Organization

Motivation, Stress, and Satisfactions

Jean Remmer MSW Hope & Cope, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste. Catherine Road, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
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Linda Edgar N PhD Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, USA; Hope & Cope and Division of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, USA
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Bruce Rapkin PhD Department of Psychiatry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Pages 63-83 | Received 15 May 2000, Accepted 06 Aug 2000, Published online: 12 Oct 2008

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