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Health Watch: Skin cancer prevention, detection tips
When the parent of a child with cancer has already experienced a traumatic life event prior to hearing of the child’s cancer diagnosis, he or she is more psychologically vulnerable to the diagnosis, according to a study from Karolinska Institutet.
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Past Trauma Can Increase Parents’ Stress at Child’s Cancer Diagnosis
Title: Child’s Cancer Often Causes Parents Severe Distress: Study Category: Health News Created: 4/2/2013 10:35:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 4/2/2013 12:00:00 AM
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Child’s Cancer Often Causes Parents Severe Distress: Study
The last thing someone diagnosed with a serious cancer wants to hear about is politics. It’s bad enough to think that whether or not you will live to see your child graduate from college may depend on your grandmother’s genes, or the cigarettes you smoked before you knew better, or work and living decisions you made before you knew the risks involved.
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