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Handbook of Cancer Survivorship

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Initial approaches to the problem of understanding the psychosocial impact of cancer focused largely on measuring changes in individual psychological functioning and quality of life in the short-term as patients coped with their diagnosis, change in health status, and invasive medical treatments.

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