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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/139071| Title: | ‘I took a gamble and I lost’ : unwarranted patient regrets about choice of treatment of uveal melanoma |
| Authors: | Carbonaro, Francis Damato, Bertil |
| Keywords: | Uvea -- Cancer -- Molecular aspects Melanoma -- Molecular aspects Melanoma -- Treatment Eye -- Cancer -- Treatment Radiotherapy -- Complications Eye -- Cancer -- Patients Melanoma -- Patients |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
| Citation: | Carbonaro, F., & Damato, B. (2005). ‘I took a gamble and I lost’: unwarranted patient regrets about choice of treatment of uveal melanoma. Eye, 19(5), 594-595. |
| Abstract: | We report a patient with uveal melanoma who mistakenly blamed himself for developing metastatic disease because he had chosen to undergo brachytherapy for his primary tumour instead of enucleation. Our impression is that this important cause of psychological morbidity has not received sufficient attention in the published literature. [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/139071 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacM&SSur |
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