Prevalence of psychiatric disorder in asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cancer patients on treatment

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 136-139

  Mishra, Sanjib Kumar ^a,b   Mohapatra, Prashant Kumar ^c   Bhattacharya, Kausik ^a   Gupta, Tejpal ^b   Agarwal, Jai Prakash ^b  

^a AHRCC ^*  (India)

^b TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

^c S C B MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Cancer; Depression; Socio demographic profile

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749180920     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 09731482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.27590     Document Type: Article

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