THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SUPPORT AND QUALITY OF LIFE: EVIDENCE FROM A PROSPECTIVE STUDY IN CHINESE PATIENTS WITH ESOPHAGEAL CARCINOMA

The Relationship between Social Support and Quality of Life: Evidence from a Prospective Study in Chinese Patients with Esophageal Carcinoma

Background: We aimed to evaluate the levels of social support in patients with postoperative esophageal carcinoma and potential effect of social support on generic and EC-specific quality of life.Methods: Overall, 803 Chinese patients with EC were recruited in the high-incidence region- Linzhou in Henan, China for the observation study.We obtained

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Teoria dello sviluppo economico e il caso italiano.

In this brief survey, the three most recent contributions to the discussion of growth rate differentials are considered.All three, using Choke Gauges different arguments, arrive at the conclusion that such a disparity should be considered as exceptional.Some argue, on the one hand, that the highest growth rates have been reached thanks to a very el

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Holiday as element of cultural memory of migration community

Identifying the difference between social and political holidays the article considers the holiday as the integral element of cultural memory.The author specifies that political privatization of a holiday is shown in creation of the Pastry new calendar of the memorable events promoting creation and fixing the collective identity.Identification func

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Speaking and Remaining Silent about the World Beyond

Due to their self-reflexive propensity, postmodern Swim Ring fiction and metafiction, in particular, have been relentlessly criticized of solipsism and of an indifference to relate to the extralinguistic world.While the novel is deemed to pause in its trajectory to examine itself, to examine its conventions and rejections of them, to address its fu

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