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A cross-sectional study of anxiety and marital quality among women with breast cancer at a university clinic in western Saudi Arabia

Faten N. Al-Zaben, Mohammad G. Sehlo and Harold G. Koenig
Saudi Medical Journal October 2015, 36 (10) 1168-1175; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.10.12254

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