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Fear of Prognosis? How Anxiety, Coping, and Expected Burden Impact the Decision to Have Cytogenetic Assessment in Uveal Melanoma Patients

2021-12-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background</bold>Cytogenetic testing (CGT) in uveal melanoma patients reveals prognostic information about the individual risk of developing distant metastasis with dismal prognosis. There is currently no medical intervention strategy with proven effect on the prognosis, rendering the result of the cytogenetic testing purely informative. We explored patients’ socio-demographic bac...

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Literature Corpus work: 35174862-b97a-5e0a-a783-25c976496a2f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1074132/v1

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