Life is precious and I'm making the best of it: coping strategies of long‐term cancer survivors

Objective: Coping strategies mediate the relationship between challenging situations and their impact on psychosocial outcomes. Many long‐term cancer survivors continue to face a range of challenges in their daily lives, yet little is known about how this population copes. The study explored the prevalence and predictors of cancer‐specific coping strategies among a heterogeneous sample of long‐term cancer survivors.

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