Deconstructing the complexity of PTSD in cancer

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 484-

  Palesh, Oxana ^a   Koopman, Cheryl ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIAN; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; IMPACT OF EVENTS SCALE; LETTER; MORBIDITY; NEOPLASM; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; UNITED STATES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84881479093     PISSN: 17594774     EISSN: 17594782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrclinonc.2013.49-c2     Document Type: Letter

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