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Over 1,700,000 people living in Italy have been diagnosed with neoplasia, plus 250,000 new cases occurring annually [1].

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Parafioriti, A., Armiraglio, E., Di Bernardo, A. (2021). Epidemiology. In: Lopresti, M., Panella, L. (eds) Rehabilitation After Limb Salvage Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66352-0_2

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