Avery D. Weisman

TL;DR: Although vulnerability increased with advanced staging and many symptoms, at the time of diagnosis psychosocial distress crossed diagnostic and prognostic boundaries, enabling investigation to predict within limits those patients who will cope effectively or fail to cope with cancer and its ramifications.

TL;DR: Study of the predilection patients has led to an evaluation of the care of the dying patient in general, particularly from the viewpoint of the paradoxical attitudes towards death that are conventionally assumed.

TL;DR: Vulnerability was but one parameter that measured emotional distress and faltering capacity to cope with concurrent problems and it was found that the more vulnerable patients had more symptoms when first diagnosed, and that systemic symptoms were more significant than the type of CA or the staging.

TL;DR: There was a significant lowering of emotional distress in the intervention group as compared to the control group and there was also a significant increase in the level of problem resolution in both intervention groups, although the numbers of problems experienced by both groups were no different.