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Leukemia Research

Volume 34, Issue 12, December 2010, Pages e334-e335
Leukemia Research

Letter to the Editor
Is pain in patients with haematological malignancies under-recognised? The results from Italian ECAD-O survey

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Conflict of interest

None declared.

Acknowledgement

The study was partially supported by an educational grant from Grünhenthal-Formenti-Italia.

Contributors. EB and DS equally contributed to the study. DS, KDB, MB and MR performed the analysis; EB and ML wrote the paper; MB, MR and GT designed the study; DS, MB, CR, GT and MR revised the paper.

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