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Believing is seeing : A new parameter to study cancer prevention and cancer treatment in older individuals

✍ Scribed by Lodovico Balducci

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2004
Tongue
English
Weight
43 KB
Volume
100
Category
Article
ISSN
0008-543X

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✦ Synopsis

Health beliefs play an important role in the implementation of cancer prevention and treatment, and health beliefs may differ between older patients and younger patients. In their report in this issue, Clipp et al. make the case for assessing health beliefs in future clinical trials and correlating these beliefs with treatment outcome.

See also pages 1085–94, this issue.

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