Coping, Distress, and Survival Among Patients With Lung Cancer
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- 1 August 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 56 (8) , 756-762
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.56.8.756
Abstract
THE QUESTION as to whether psychological factors influence survival among patients with cancer has stimulated considerable research. Previous research with breast cancer patients demonstrates that coping attitudes, such as a fighting spirit and denial, were predictive of longer survival, as compared with hopelessness and fatalism.1-4 Many subsequent investigations, however, yielded conflicting findings and had methodological limitations.Keywords
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