Electronic support groups for breast carcinoma: a clinical trial of effectiveness.

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Published in Cancer on February 15, 2003

Authors

Morton A Lieberman1, Mitch Golant, Janine Giese-Davis, Andy Winzlenberg, Harold Benjamin, Keith Humphreys, Carol Kronenwetter, Stefani Russo, David Spiegel

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94118, USA. mal@itsa.ucs.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Evaluation of a Social-networking Intervention to Reduce Cancer-related Distress | NCT01976949

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