The hidden dangers of a cancer diagnosis

BMJ. 2016 Aug 31:354:i4446. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i4446.

Authors

Holly G Prigerson¹, Susan C Vaughan², Wendy G Lichtenthal³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA hgp2001@med.cornell.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry, Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 10065, USA.

Abstract

Patients have a heightened risk of injury in the weeks before and after a diagnosis

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MeSH terms

Humans
Neoplasms*

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