Psychosocial difficulties, deprivation and cancer: three questionnaire studies involving 609 cancer patients.

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Published in Br J Cancer on September 19, 2005

Authors

P Wright1, A Smith, L Booth, A Winterbottom, M Kiely, G Velikova, P Selby

Author Affiliations

1: Psychosocial and Clinical Practice Research Group, Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre in Leeds, St James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7TF, UK. medepw@cancermed.leeds.ac.uk

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