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David Spiegel
Researcher at Stanford University
Publications - 838
Citations - 50967
David Spiegel is an academic researcher from Stanford University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 106, co-authored 733 publications receiving 46276 citations. Previous affiliations of David Spiegel include Tel Aviv University & University of Adelaide.
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Effect of psychosocial treatment on survival of patients with metastatic breast cancer
David Spiegel,David Spiegel,HelenaC. Kraemer,HelenaC. Kraemer,JoanR. Bloom,JoanR. Bloom,Ellen Gottheil,Ellen Gottheil +7 more
TL;DR: The effect of psychosocial intervention on time of survival of 86 patients with metastatic breast cancer was studied prospectively and survival plots indicated that divergence in survival began at 20 months after entry, or 8 months after intervention ended.
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An estimation of the global volume of surgery : a modelling strategy based on available data. Commentary
Stephen W. Bickler,David Spiegel,Thomas G. Weiser,Scott E. Regenbogen,Katherine D. Thompson,Alex B. Haynes,Stuart R. Lipsitz,William R. Berry,Atul A. Gawande +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimated the number of major operations undertaken worldwide, described their distribution, and assessed the importance of surgical care in global public health policy, based on demographic, health, and economic data for 192 member states of the World Health Organization.
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Diurnal Cortisol Rhythm as a Predictor of Breast Cancer Survival
TL;DR: Patients with metastatic breast cancer whose diurnal cortisol rhythms were flattened or abnormal had earlier mortality, and suppression of NK cell count and NK function may be a mediator or a marker of more rapid disease progression.
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Mood disorders in the medically ill: scientific review and recommendations.
Dwight L. Evans,Dennis S. Charney,Dennis S. Charney,Lydia Lewis,Robert N. Golden,Jack M. Gorman,K. Ranga Rama Krishnan,Charles B. Nemeroff,J. Douglas Bremner,Robert M. Carney,James C. Coyne,Mahlon R. DeLong,Nancy Frasure-Smith,Alexander H. Glassman,Philip W. Gold,Igor Grant,Lisa P. Gwyther,Gail Ironson,Robert L. Johnson,Andres M. Kanner,Wayne Katon,Peter G. Kaufmann,Francis J. Keefe,Terence A. Ketter,Thomas Laughren,Jane Leserman,Constantine G. Lyketsos,William M. McDonald,Bruce S. McEwen,Andrew H. Miller,Dominique L. Musselman,Christopher M. O'Connor,John M. Petitto,Bruce G. Pollock,Robert G. Robinson,Steven P. Roose,Julia H. Rowland,Yvette I. Sheline,David S. Sheps,Gregory E. Simon,David Spiegel,Albert J. Stunkard,Trey Sunderland,Paul Tibbits,William J. Valvo +44 more
TL;DR: A growing body of evidence suggests that biological mechanisms underlie a bidirectional link between mood disorders and many medical illnesses and there is evidence to suggest that mood disorders affect the course of medical illnesses.
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Emotion Modulation in PTSD: Clinical and Neurobiological Evidence for a Dissociative Subtype
Ruth A. Lanius,Eric Vermetten,Richard J. Loewenstein,Bethany Brand,Christian Schmahl,J. Douglas Bremner,David Spiegel +6 more
TL;DR: The neural manifestations of the dissociative subtype in PTSD are compared to those underlying the reexperiencing/hyperaroused subtype and have important implications for treatment of PTSD, including the need to assess patients with PTSD for Dissociative symptoms and to incorporate the treatment of dissociatives symptoms into stage-oriented trauma treatment.