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Breast Cancer - Support
Social Support and Survival among Women with Breast Cancer
September 11th, 1995
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Cancer, "Background: Two recently reported randomized trials, one among patients with advanced breast cancer and the other among patients with early stage melanoma, suggested that social support may affect survival favorably. This study assesses relationships of social support indicators with 7-year survival among women diagnosed with localized or regional stage breast cancer. Methods: All newly diagnosed patients with surgically treated localized or regional disease in seven Quebec City hospitals in 1984 were considered for this analysis. Among 235 eligible patients, 224 (95%) participated in a home...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (1995-09-11)
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