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Original Articles

The illness reframing process in an ethnic-majority population of older people with incurable cancer: variations of cultural- and existential meaning-making adjustments

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Pages 150-163 | Received 18 May 2015, Accepted 20 Nov 2015, Published online: 16 Mar 2016

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