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Reassurance and the anxious cancer patient

Many cancer patients are anxious even when disease is in remission. Anxiety about health, ‘health anxiety’, has distinct features, notably seeking medical reassurance about symptoms. Doctors may then communicate that these symptoms are not due to serious illness, a process known as ‘reassurance’. Ho...

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Autores principales: Stark, D, Kiely, M, Smith, A, Morley, S, Selby, P, House, A
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2409992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15292934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602077