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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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NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: palliative care.

TL;DR: The goal of these guidelines is to help patients with cancer experience the best quality of life possible throughout the illness trajectory by providing guidance for the primary oncology team for symptom screening, assessment, palliative care interventions, reassessment, and afterdeath care.
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Coping styles associated with psychological adjustment to advanced breast cancer

TL;DR: Fighting spirit and emotional expressiveness were found to be associated with better adjustment in women with metastatic or recurrent breast cancer, and no conclusions regarding a causal relationship between adjustment and emotional expressesiveness or adjustment and fighting spirit were possible.
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Social support, life stress, pain and emotional adjustment to advanced breast cancer

TL;DR: The results are consistent with the ‘buffering hypothesis’ that social support may shield women with metastatic breast cancer from the effects of previous life stress on their emotional adjustment; however, aversive support may be an additional source of life stress associated with emotional distress.
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Acute Stress Disorder as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

TL;DR: The results suggest not only that being a bystander to violence is highly stressful in the short run, but that acute stress reactions to such an event further predict later posttraumatic stress symptoms.