Prostate Cancer Survivorship among African American Men
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The term survivorship is characterized here as having successfully lived beyond the stage of actual treatment, and having adapted to a current lifestyle. However, survivorship is also viewed as years lived beyond treatment [1-6]. The following section will address survivorship from a multidisciplinary perspective. A review of the treatment of African American prostate cancer survivors will be explored within the general context of cancer survivorship.
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تاریخ انتشار 2016