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Thinking beyond the tumor to better understand chronic symptoms in breast cancer survivors

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Acknowledgments

NLH is the Damon Runyon-Lilly Clinical Investigator supported (in part) by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation (CI-53-10).

Disclosures

NLH receives research funding from Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and Sanofi Aventis. DJC receives research funding from Forest Laboratories and Merck and is a consultant for Cypress Biosciences, Eli Lilly, Forest Laboratories, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals USA, Pfizer, and UCB.

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  1. Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Med Inn Building C450, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-5843, USA

    N. Lynn Henry

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, USA

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Henry, N.L., Clauw, D.J. Thinking beyond the tumor to better understand chronic symptoms in breast cancer survivors. Breast Cancer Res Treat 133, 413–416 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-011-1804-8

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