Health burden in cancer survivors: below the tip of the iceberg

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¹ UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. pganz@mednet.ucla.edu.

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Eden R Brauer et al. Nat Rev Clin Oncol. 2019 Aug.

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. 2019 Aug;16(8):467-468.

doi: 10.1038/s41571-019-0226-0.

¹ UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
² UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA. pganz@mednet.ucla.edu.

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