## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Despite growing numbers of prostate cancer (PCa) survivors, to the authors' knowledge there is little research regarding how personality, coping, and treatment influence men's psychologic well‐being, as distinct from the often‐studied functional, health‐related quality of
The prognostic role of cancer-specific beliefs among prostate cancer survivors
✍ Scribed by Hosanna Soler-Vilá; Robert Dubrow; Vivian I. Franco; Stanislav V. Kasl; Beth A. Jones
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 204 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0957-5243
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