Psychoncology

The development and course of different varieties of cancer are subject to psychosocial influences

86 women with advanced breast cancer that had ______ to other areas of their bodies

The study of cancer

Spiegel and his colleagues had little hope of affecting the disease itself, they thought that by treating these people in group psychotherapy at least they

The ______ was poor indeed

The development and course of different varieties of cancer are subject to psychosocial influences (Emery, Anderson, & Andersen, 2011; Fagundes et al., 2012; Giese-Davis et al., 2011; Williams & Schneiderman, 2002). This has resulted in a new field of study called psychoncology (Antoni & Lutgendorf, 2007; Helgeson, 2005; Lutgendorf, Costanzo, & Siegel, 2007). Oncology means the study of cancer. In a widely noted study, David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford University, and his colleagues (Spiegel, Bloom, Kramer, & Gotheil, 1989; Spiegel, 2013) studied 86 women with advanced breast cancer that had metastasized to other areas of their bodies and was expected to kill them within 2 years. Clearly, the prognosis was poor indeed. Although Spiegel and his colleagues had little hope of affecting the disease itself, they thought that by treating these people in group ______ at least they.