Understanding of prognosis among parents of children with cancer: parental optimism and the parent-physician interaction.

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Published in J Clin Oncol on April 10, 2007

Authors

Jennifer W Mack1, E Francis Cook, Joanne Wolfe, Holcombe E Grier, Paul D Cleary, Jane C Weeks

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pediatric Oncology, and the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115, USA. jennifer_mack@dfci.harvard.edu

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