Psychotherapy groups and cancer patient survival: chasing fool's gold?
Increasingly, clinicians are reading literature concerning group interventions that examine group influences on the emotional well-being and survival of cancer patients. This article focuses on reviewing the literature of randomized controlled trials (RCT) reported to examine survival rates among cancer patients involved in group interventions; it highlights some of the limitations seen in these past studies and suggests issues that researchers may need to consider in the future.
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Quality of Life Unit, European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer, Brussels, Belgium.
D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D011379:Prognosis; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D016019:Survival Analysis; D016896:Treatment Outcome