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Believing is seeing
Author(s) -
Balducci Lodovico
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.20086
Subject(s) - medicine , clinical trial , outcome (game theory) , alternative medicine , family medicine , pathology , mathematical economics , mathematics
Health beliefs play an important role in the implementation of cancer prevention and treatment, and health beliefs may differ between older patients and younger patients. In their report in this issue, Clipp et al. make the case for assessing health beliefs in future clinical trials and correlating these beliefs with treatment outcome. See also pages 1085–94, this issue.