Screening young adult cancer survivors for distress with the Distress Thermometer: Comparisons with a structured clinical diagnostic interview
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Screening for distress in patients with cancer.
Although distress is common among people with cancer, the current standard of care does not include consistent distress screening. To acquire or maintain accreditation, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer will require cancer centers to have a distress screening program in place by 2015. When evaluating tools to screen for distress in patients with cancer, researchers should ev...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cancer
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29736