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Medical Hypotheses

Volume 56, Issue 4, April 2001, Pages 480-482
Medical Hypotheses

Regular Article
Psychosocial interventions and cancer patients: psychological and immune responses may depend on cancer type

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Abstract

Psychological and immunological responses of cancer patients to a psychosocial intervention program will be assessed over time. Previously it has been proposed that there are two large divisions in cancer histology (type I and II) and that the psychobiology of patients will vary accordingly.

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