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Pek, C.J. (2019). Pancreatic Cancer. In: Charnay-Sonnek, F., Murphy, A. (eds) Principle of Nursing in Oncology . Principles of Specialty Nursing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76457-3_17

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