Supportive-expressive group therapy for women with metastatic breast cancer: Survival and psychosocial outcome from a randomized controlled trial

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 277-286

  Kissane, David W ^a,b   Grabsch, Brenda ^b   Clarke, David M ^c   Smith, Graeme C ^c   Love, Anthony W ^b,d   Bloch, Sidney ^b,e   Snyder, Raymond D ^e   Li, Yuelin ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Depression; Group therapy; Psychosocial outcome; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HAZARD RATIO; HELPLESSNESS; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELAXATION TRAINING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SURVIVAL TIME; VISCERAL METASTASIS; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELAXATION TECHNIQUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 34247569358     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1185     Document Type: Article

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