Psychological Distress and Cancer Survival: A Follow-Up 10 Years After Diagnosis
Kirk W. Brown,
Adrian R. Levy,
Zeev Rosberger and
Linda Edgar
From Department of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology (K.W.B.), University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences (A.R.L.), St. Pauls Hospital and Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; Division of Psychology (Z.R., L.E.), Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal; and Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Oncology (Z.R.), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Figure 1. Overall survival according to level of depressive symptomology measured at baseline (3 months postdiagnosis). Curves have been adjusted for diagnostic category, histological grade, and nodal status.
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