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  1. Division of Adult Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Ogawahigashi 4-1-1, Kodaira, Tokyo, 187-8553, Japan

    Yutaka Matsuoka & Mitsue Nagamine

  2. Psycho-Oncology Division, Research Center for Innovative Oncology National Cancer Center Hospital East, 6-5-1 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, 277-8577, Japan

    Yutaka Matsuoka, Mitsue Nagamine & Yosuke Uchitomi

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Nobumasa Kato M.D.

  2. Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi-Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan

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Matsuoka, Y., Nagamine, M., Uchitomi, Y. (2006). Intrusion in Women with Breast Cancer. In: Kato, N., Kawata, M., Pitman, R.K. (eds) PTSD. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-29567-4_15

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