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Cancer symptom clusters—a dynamic construct

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Dr. J. Kirkova is supported by a Mount Sinai Health Care Foundation Research Fellowship in End of Life Care. The authors acknowledge Dr. Nabila Bennani–Baiti and Dr. K. Mitchell Russell for their comments on the manuscript.

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*A WHO Project in Palliative Medicine.

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Kirkova, J., Walsh, D. Cancer symptom clusters—a dynamic construct. Support Care Cancer 15, 1011–1013 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-007-0259-2

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