Support groups have increasingly been demonstrated to be an effective intervention in reducing psychological difficulties and emotional problems in patients with cancer. This report describes a pilot support group intervention based upon a modified version of Cain and colleagues' (1986) thematic cou
Trends in survival for patients with metastatic soft-tissue sarcoma
✍ Scribed by Antoine Italiano; Simone Mathoulin-Pelissier; Axel Le Cesne; Philippe Terrier; Sylvie Bonvalot; Françoise Collin; Jean-Jacques Michels; Jean-Yves Blay; Jean-Michel Coindre; Binh Bui
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 187 KB
- Volume
- 117
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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