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Focusing on physical function limitations in elderly women surviving cancer: any opportunity for improvement?

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boxed-textSweeney C et al. (2006) Functional limitations in elderly female cancer survivors. J Natl Cancer Inst 98: 521–529

Long-term effects of cancer and its treatment that can contribute to disability in elderly patients should be identified and prevented

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  1. Assistant at the Research Unit in Medical Senology, the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Silvia Dellapasqua

  2. Director of the Research Unit in Medical Senology, the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Marco Colleoni

  3. Director of the Department of Medicine and of the Division of Medical Oncology, the European Institute of Oncology, Milan, Italy

    Aron Goldhirsch

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Dellapasqua, S., Colleoni, M. & Goldhirsch, A. Focusing on physical function limitations in elderly women surviving cancer: any opportunity for improvement?. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 3, 598–599 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncponc0633

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