Effect of Massage Therapy on Minimizing Fatigue among Elderly Women with Breast Cancer (original) (raw)
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Applied Nursing Research, 2013
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The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2007
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Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2012
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