Comment on 'Psychological distress in patients with cancer: Is screening the effective solution?'

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2628-2630

  Dekker, J ^a,b   Beekman, A T F ^a,b   Boenink, A D ^a   Bomhof Roordink, H ^a,b   Braamse, A M ^a,b   Collette, E H ^a   Huijgens, P C ^a   Van Der Linden, M H M ^a   Van Meijel, B ^a   Snoek, F J ^a,b   Visser, O ^a   Verheul, H M ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c INHOLLAND UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SCREENING; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG CANCER; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRIAGE;

EID: 84879695769     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2013.286     Document Type: Letter

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