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Stress resilience and survival among cancer patients: is there any absolute truth?

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Mormile, R. Stress resilience and survival among cancer patients: is there any absolute truth?. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 84, 225–226 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00280-019-03853-y

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