Personality Predicts Quality of Life Six Months after the Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Disease
Annals of Surgical OncologyPublished 4 December 2006Open access
Alida F. W. van der Steeg, Jolanda De Vries, F.W.C. van der Ent, Jan A. Roukema
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Trait anxiety rather than the diagnosis breast cancer determined whether patients experienced a low quality of Life (QoL) and there was a significant difference in scores on general QoL between the groups on all measurement moments.
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Trait anxiety rather than the diagnosis breast cancer determined whether patients experienced a low QoL.
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