Distress mediates the relationship between cognitive appraisal of medical care and benefit finding/posttraumatic growth in long‐term cancer survivors

The objective of this study was to ascertain long‐term cancer survivors' (LTCS') appraisal of medical care and how these perceptions may influence their health and well‐being, including benefit finding (BF) and posttraumatic growth (PTG).

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