Depression and IL-6 blood plasma concentrations in advanced cancer patients

Psychosomatics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-66

  Jacobson, Colleen M ^a   Rosenfeld, Barry ^b   Pessin, Hayley ^b   Breitbart, William ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

EID: 37549071485     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.psy.49.1.64     Document Type: Article

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