This excerpt, chapter 4 from the book Women's Health: A Resource Guide for Nurses, edited by Pamela S. Dickerson, PhD, RN, BC, is part of a series of clinically relevant reprints that appear regularly in the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.
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