Prevalence of Psychological Distress Among Cancer Patients Across the Disease Continuum
- 2 October 1997
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology
- Vol. 15 (2) , 73-87
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j077v15n02_05
Abstract
Psychological distress is considered to be common as patients with cancer move beyond their diagnosis and into intensive treatment. However, the absolute prevalence of elevated psychological distre...This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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