Differential Effects of Cancer Rehabilitation Depending on Diagnosis and Patients Cognitive Coping Style
Lena-Marie Petersson, MSc,
Karin Nordin, PhD,
Bengt Glimelius, PhD,
Einar Brekkan, MD,
Per-Olow Sjödén, PhD and
Gunilla Berglund, PhD
From the Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences (L.-M.P., K.N., P.-O.S., G.B.), Uppsala University, Uppsala Science Park; and the Department of Oncology, Radiology, and Clinical Immunology (B.G.) and Department of Urology (E.B.), University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden.

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Fig. 1. Design of the study. *Gastrointestinal cancer patients with known metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis were only randomized between IS and SC. °Erroneous diagnosis (N = 2), delay of more than 3 months from diagnosis to inclusion (N = 1), and dementia (N = 1). Patients who were under medical investigation for a suspected breast cancer were informed that GR would be an option only if surgery confirmed a cancer diagnosis.
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