Psychological distress in women seeking genetic counseling for breast-ovarian cancer risk: The contributions of personality and appraisal

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Annals of Behavioral Medicine

• Publication date

  1997-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1007/BF02895156PMID 9706364
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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