Social support for cancer—Selected problems
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Social support for cancer-Selected problems.
Cancer creates a difficult situation connected with an extreme psychological burden for the patient, with the main symptom being the high level of stress resulting from the necessity to change the hierarchy of values and life goals, the prospect of physical pain and dependence on others. The main goal of the research was to determine the scope of social support recognized by patients with cance...
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عنوان ژورنال: Reports of Practical Oncology & Radiotherapy
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1507-1367
DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2010.02.002