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Belief in an afterlife, spiritual well-being and end-of-life despair in patients with advanced cancer
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- Authors
- McClain-Jacobson, C., Rosenfeld, B., Kosinski, A., Pessin, H., Cimino, J. E., & Breitbart, W.
- Venue
- General Hospital Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2004-11
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 484-486
- ISSN
- 0163-8343 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2133158421
- Cited by
- 163
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 6.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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