Post-traumatic stress disorder in cancer
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Meredith Y. Smith; William H. Redd; Caroline Peyser; Dan Vogl
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The stressor criterion for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been recently modified to include life-threatening illnesses, such as cancer, as precipitating traumatic events. We sought to examine the empiric evidence for cancer's inclusion as a traumatic stressor. Nine published studies asses