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Counseling Patients with Cancer

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All involved in cancer care need to understand their patients’ needs and fears. They must also be able to recognise and respond to patients’ psychological concerns appropriately. Every oncology service should have systems for providing appropriate psychological support to patients and their relatives.

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  1. Ocular Oncology Service, St Paul’s Eye Unit, University of Liverpool, Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8XP, UK

    Laura Hope-Stone

  2. Ocular Oncology Service, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Bertil Damato MD, PhD, FRCOphth

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  1. Dept. of Ophthalmic Oncology, Cole Eye Institute Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Arun D. Singh

  2. Ocular Oncology Service, Dept. of Ophthalmol., University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Bertil Damato

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Hope-Stone, L., Damato, B. (2014). Counseling Patients with Cancer. In: Singh, A., Damato, B. (eds) Clinical Ophthalmic Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40489-4_14

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