International lung cancer trends by histologic type: male: female differences diminishing and adenocarcinoma rates rising

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Spiegel et al. (1989) conducted a prospective intervention study of patients withmetastatic breast cancer. Findings demonstrated that a weekly support group meeting forone year enhanced patients’ psychosocial functioning and reduced pain as compared to astandard care treatment control group. Further, in a ten-year follow-up, the data reportedthat survival was significantly different, with a mean of 36.3 months in the interventiongroup compared with 18.9 months in the control group.Another study, conducted by Fawzy and colleagues (1993) supported these findings.Early-stage melanoma patients assigned to a six-week psychosocial intervention demon-strated increases in coping skills, but no affect on negative mood states or immune...
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International lung cancer trends by histologic type: male:female differences diminishing and adenocarcinoma rates rising