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Mindfulness‐based cancer recovery and supportive‐expressive therapy maintain telomere length relative to controls in distressed breast cancer survivors Cancer, Wiley Periodicals

Carlson LE, Beattie TL, Giese-Davis J, Faris P, Tamagawa R, Fick LJ, Degelman ES, Speca M. · Cancer · 2015 · randomised controlled trial, double blind

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“Psychosocial interventions providing stress reduction and emotional support resulted in trends toward telomere length maintenance in distressed breast cancer survivors, compared with decreases in usual care”

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25367403/ · https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.29063 · https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.29063

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Mindfulness‐based cancer recovery and supportive‐expressive therapy maintain telomere length relative to controls in distressed breast cancer survivors Cancer, Wiley Periodicals
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2015
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Carlson LE, Beattie TL, Giese-Davis J, Faris P, Tamagawa R, Fick LJ, Degelman ES, Speca M.
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“Psychosocial interventions providing stress reduction and emotional support resulted in trends toward telomere length maintenance in distressed breast cancer survivors, compared with decreases in usual care”

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25367403/ · https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.29063 · https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cncr.29063

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    Mindfulness‐based cancer recovery and supportive‐expressive therapy maintain telomere length relative to controls in distressed breast cancer survivors Cancer, Wiley Periodicals
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        “Psychosocial interventions providing stress reduction and emotional support resulted in trends toward telomere length maintenance in distressed breast cancer survivors, compared with decreases in usual care”
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