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Rehabilitation: Definition, Goals, and Timing

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Cancer and its multimodal therapy approaches can lead to a number of physical disabilities and/or psychosocial impairments. These complicate or even prevent the return to daily living and work. Cancer rehabilitation contributes to restore physical and psychosocial functioning in all disease settings and thus is the beginning of cancer survivorship.

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Schilling, G. (2021). Rehabilitation: Definition, Goals, and Timing. In: Rauh, S. (eds) Survivorship Care for Cancer Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78648-9_9

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