Posttraumatic stress disorder in female cancer patients: An inappropriate diagnosis in oncology?

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 271-272

  Greimel, Elfriede ^a   Dorfer, Martha ^a   Lambauer, Michaela ^a   Bjelic Radisic, Vesna ^a   Gramm, Susanne ^a   Lahousen, Manfred ^a   Lang, Uwe ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DSM-IV; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STRUCTURED CLINICAL INTERVIEW FOR DSM DISORDERS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FOLLOW UP; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878366313     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000348610     Document Type: Letter

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