Psychotherapy groups and cancer patient survival: Chasing fool's gold?

European Journal of Cancer Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 192-196

  Bottomley, A ^a  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cancer; Group interventions; Psychotherapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18644370545     PISSN: 09615423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2354.1998.00099.x     Document Type: Article

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