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Serious Games for Health and Medicine (1172) Extended Reality, Virtual Reality and Virtual Worlds (1100) Quality Improvement (364) Innovations and Technology in Cancer Care (662) Clinical Cancer Research (237) Breast Cancer (400) Evaluation of XR and Spatial Computing (114)

Published on in Vol 12 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/53825, first published .
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Effects of Virtual Reality Therapy for Patients With Breast Cancer During Chemotherapy: Randomized Controlled Trial

Effects of Virtual Reality Therapy for Patients With Breast Cancer During Chemotherapy: Randomized Controlled Trial

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Mengdan Li1 Author Orcid Image ;   Zhifu Yu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hui Li1 Author Orcid Image ;   Li Cao1 Author Orcid Image ;   Huihui Yu1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ning Deng1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yunyong Liu2 Author Orcid Image
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