Low psychopathology scores in the prognosis of breast cancer a preliminary report

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 162-167

  Trikas, Panayotis ^a,b   Vlachonikolis, Ioannis ^a   Samonis, George ^a   Askoxilakis, Ioannis ^a   Tsiftsis, Dimitris ^a   Koutsoubi, Katerina ^a   Paritsis, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Outcome; Prognostic factors; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; METASTASIS; MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036092286     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000056284     Document Type: Article

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