Keep Moving: Patients With Myeloma Talk About Exercise and Fatigue

Sharon Coon

Elizabeth Ann Coleman

ONF 2004, 31(6), 1127-1135. DOI: 10.1188/04.ONF.1127-1135

Purpose/Objectives: To learn about the feelings, beliefs, and experiences of patients with multiple myeloma implementing an exercise program in the context of an aggressive tandem peripheral stem cell transplant protocol.

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