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Rehabilitation in the Context of Cancer Survivorship

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It is widely understood that people treated for cancer often feel much better before their therapy begins than they do when it has concluded. Novelist Wilfred Sheed wrote of his cancer experience in his memoir, In Love With Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery [1].

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Silver, J.K., Gilchrist, L.S. (2011). Rehabilitation in the Context of Cancer Survivorship. In: Feuerstein, M., Ganz, P. (eds) Health Services for Cancer Survivors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1348-7_5

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