## BACKGROUND. The health-related functioning of patients with cancer is compromised by several factors, including the disease process, treatment, and the various symptoms that are produced by both disease and treatment. This study was designed to specify the relationship between patients' pain se
Quality of life and pain in Chinese lung cancer patients: Is optimism a moderator or mediator?
β Scribed by Wing S. Wong; R. Fielding
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0962-9343
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