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Growing evidence highlights the adverse clinical effects and societal implications of loneliness, i.e., the negative feeling associated with a perceived discrepancy between desired and existing social ...

Factors associated with fear of cancer recurrence in a multiethnic cohort of patients with breast cancer. Cancer-related distress and unmet needs among those with metastatic and non-metastatic ...

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Loneliness is increasingly recognized as one of the most serious global public health challenges of our time. From Japan’s Ministry of Loneliness to the U.S. Surgeon General’s call for social ...

1 Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Clinical Research Centre, Guangzhou, China 2 General Hospital of Southern Theater Command of PLA, Department of Orthopedics, Guangzhou, China 3 The ...