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There's many a slip twixt cup and lip: adherence issues in cancer therapy

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  1. Cancer Research UK Psychosocial Oncology Group, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer BN1 9QG, UK l.j.fallowfield@sussex.ac.uk

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  1. L Fallowfield is Director of the Cancer Research UK Sussex Psychosocial Oncology Group at Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.,

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Fallowfield, L. There's many a slip twixt cup and lip: adherence issues in cancer therapy. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 5, 118–119 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncponc1043

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