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On June 10, Psycho-Oncology, a journal that publishes research on the “psychological, social, behavioral, and ethical” side of cancer, received a complaint. In a letter, Ad Kaptein, a researcher at the Leiden University Medical Centre, in the Netherlands, wrote to say that a review and meta-analysis published by the journal that month hadn’t adequately cited […]
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The YAVIS bias reconsidered: Young, attractive, verbal, intelligent, successfully coping with cancer preferred.
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Rethinking, rebuilding psychosocial care for cancer patients.
Why screening cancer patients for distress will increase disparities in psychosocial services.
William Schofield’s …
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Should a dying patient talking to a psychiatrist be diagnosed with adjustment disorder related to death?
Dare we ask: Could impending death not be sufficiently psychologically distressing for patients to routinely benefit from psychotherapy?
Patients aware that they are dying …
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