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Breast Cancer
Quality of life predicted in newly diagnosed melanoma and breast cancer patients
July 14th, 2005
Quality of life could be predicted in newly diagnosed melanoma and breast cancer patients. According to recent research from Finland, "Quality of life (QOL) is a multidimensional construct, and several psychosocial and medical factors can predict a patient's QOL. We investigated the impact of factors in the psychological stress processes on QOL 3 months after diagnosis of melanoma or breast cancer." "In consecutive melanoma and breast cancer patients with localized disease, cancer-specific social support, coping with cancer, personality trait anger expression, non-cancer stress, sociodemographic variables, cancer and treatment variables, and QOL...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-07-14)
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