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Quality of life, fatigue and depression in Italian long-term breast cancer survivors

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the Italian Ministry of Health that funded the Integrated Research Program in Oncology no. 7 “Medical and psycho-social rehabilitation program for long-term cancer survivors”. The authors wish to thank Dr. Patricia Ganz, Professor of Health Services and Medicine at UCLA and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor, and Dr. Angelo Paradiso, Scientific Director of the National Cancer Center “Giovanni Paolo II” of Bari for their authoritative help and suggestions in reviewing and editing the manuscript; Caroline Oakley for linguistic review; Rosanna Montanaro for her support in the first phases of the research and in data collection; Viviana Armenise, Carla Costanzo, Valentina Del Vescovo, Anna Giodice, Sara Parisi, Grazia Pierri, Francesco Recchia, Caterina Stolfa, Annarita Teofilo and Mariagrazia Virgilio for their help in data collection and in data entering.

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  1. Experimental Unit of Psychological Oncology, Department of Critical Area and Surgery, National Cancer Center “Giovanni Paolo II”, Via O. Flacco 65, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Francesca Romito, Claudia Cormio & Vittorio Mattioli

  2. Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Center “Giovanni Paolo II”, Via O. Flacco 65, 70126, Bari, Italy

    Francesco Giotta & Giuseppe Colucci

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Romito, F., Cormio, C., Giotta, F. et al. Quality of life, fatigue and depression in Italian long-term breast cancer survivors. Support Care Cancer 20, 2941–2948 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-012-1424-9

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