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A prospective examination of mask anxiety during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer and patient perceptions of management strategies

INTRODUCTION: Distress related to wearing an immobilisation mask for radiotherapy treatment (RT) is a common experience for the person undergoing RT for head and neck cancer (HNC). Described as ‘mask anxiety’, there is little known about the patterns of this distress through the course of the treatm...

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Autores principales: Nixon, Jodie L., Brown, Bena, Pigott, Amanda E., Turner, Jane, Brown, Elizabeth, Bernard, Anne, Wall, Laurelie R., Ward, Elizabeth C., Porceddu, Sandro V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6745384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31343118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmrs.346