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Delivering Bad News to Patients and Their Families

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Boston, MA, USA

    Lidia Schapira

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  1. Sotiria General Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Konstantinos N. Syrigos MD, PhD

  2. Royal Marsden NHS Trust Hospitals, London, UK

    Christopher M. Nutting MB BA, MD, FRCR

  3. Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

    Charis Roussos MD, MSc, PhD, MRS, FRCP(C)

  4. Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Charis Roussos MD, MSc, PhD, MRS, FRCP(C)

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Schapira, L. (2006). Delivering Bad News to Patients and Their Families. In: Syrigos, K.N., Nutting, C.M., Roussos, C. (eds) Tumors of the Chest. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31040-1_52

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