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Oncological genetic counseling (OGC) for high-risk hereditary cancer: what can hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADs) tell us?
Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology - 1 Jan 2000
Costanzo Silvia, Cormio Claudia, Romito Francesca, Digennaro Maria, Patruno Margherita, Fanizzi Annarita, Paradiso Angelo
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PURPOSE: This study aimed to verify whether and how anxiety and depression symptoms are associated both to socio-demographic and clinical variables (age, civil status, type of cancer diagnosed, time elapsed between cancer diagnosis and Oncologic Genetic Counseling/OGC, number of relatives affected by cancer) and to psychological features (presence/absence of previous psychological suffering), subjective cancer...
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