The relation of cancer-prone personality to exceptional recovery from cancer: A preliminary study

Advances in Mind-Body Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 6-19

  Katz, Lori S ^a   Epstein, Seymour ^b  

^a VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; RELIABILITY;

AGED; FEMALE; GRIEF; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIND-BODY RELATIONS, METAPHYSICAL; NEOPLASMS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644537056     PISSN: 07419783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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