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Pain is our body's alarm system. It warns us if there is something wrong with our body. Pain can therefore be very useful, but sometimes also very misleading. Elien Van Der Gucht (KU Leuven) investigates the factors that cause the alarm system of women with breast cancer to go off - sometimes even months and years after their operation.
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