Group therapy and cancer survival - Where does the evidence lie in 2007?

Psychiatric Times

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 61-62

  Floyd, Tiffany ^a   Di Ciccone, Barbara Lubrano ^a   Kissane, David W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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