Effects of psychotherapy on cancer survival

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 383-389

  Spiegel, David ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COUNSELING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTION; FAMILY; HUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUPPORT GROUP; TREATMENT PLANNING; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; SURVIVAL RATE;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036562144     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc800     Document Type: Review

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