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Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, on Depression and Cancer Care

2015 Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium

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Betty Ferrell, PhD, RN, of City of Hope, discusses two papers that look at an important issue from different perspectives: depression and anxiety among family caregivers of patients with advanced cancer, and the link between oncologists’ dispositional affect and depressive symptoms in their patients with metastatic cancer (Abstracts 224, 214).



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