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The silent symptom early satiety: a forerunner of distinct phenotypes of anorexia/cachexia syndromes

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Strasser, F. The silent symptom early satiety: a forerunner of distinct phenotypes of anorexia/cachexia syndromes. Support Care Cancer 14, 689–692 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-006-0061-6

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