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Acknowledgments

This review was conducted whilst David Neary was employed as Macmillan Research Fellow at the Macmillan Research Unit, University of Manchester (UK). Thanks to Macmillan Cancer Support (UK) for supporting and funding this research programme.

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Neary, D. (2009). Epidemiology. In: Work and Cancer Survivors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72041-8_1

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