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Research Article

The initial development of the ‘Cancer Caregiving Tasks, Consequences and Needs Questionnaire’ (CaTCoN)

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Pages 1009-1019 | Received 28 Sep 2011, Accepted 22 Mar 2012, Published online: 08 May 2012

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