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Effects of medical and psychotherapeutic treatment on the survival of women with metastatic breast carcinoma

✍ Scribed by Manuela M. Kogon; Amitava Biswas; Deirdre Pearl; Robert W. Carlson; David Spiegel

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 79 KB
Volume: 80
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19970715)80:2<225::aid-cncr9>3.0.co;2-s

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✦ Synopsis

Of the original 86 study participants, medical treatment charts for 61 and death certificates for 83 were available for further analysis. The authors re-1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciviewed the course of the medical treatment they received subsequent to their entry ences, Stanford University School of Medicine, into the randomized psychotherapy trial. Stanford, California.

RESULTS.

Although there were no statistically significant differences with regard

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