Pain and cancer survival: A cognitive-affective model of symptom appraisal and the uncertain threat of disease recurrence

Pain

Volumn 158, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1187-1191

  Heathcote, L C ^a,b   Eccleston, C ^c,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPLICATION; MOOD DISORDER; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; SURVIVAL;

EID: 85021425693     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000872     Document Type: Review

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