Psychological disorders, external locus of control, and low social support are associated with maladaptive responses and abnormal illness behavior in newly diagnosed cancer patients.
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May warrant psychiatric screening in cancer patients with abnormal illness behaviour; hypothesis-generating for causal links and interventions.
Grassi et al. (2010) studied this question.
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