Holidays, Birthdays, and Postponement of Cancer Death
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Holidays, birthdays, and postponement of cancer death.
CONTEXT Articles in the medical literature and lay press have supported a belief that individuals, including those dying of cancer, can temporarily postpone their death to survive a major holiday or other significant event, but results and effects have been variable. OBJECTIVE To determine whether, for the patient dying of cancer, a "death takes a holiday" effect showing a reduction in deaths...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0098-7484
DOI: 10.1001/jama.292.24.3012