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Vol.2, No.5, 429-434 (2010) Health doi:10.4236/health.2010.25064 Coping styles as predictors of survival time in bladder cancer 1 2 1 1 2 Jochen Hardt *, Rolf Gillitzer , Susanna Schneider , Sabine Fischbeck , Joachim W. Thüroff 1Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; *Corresponding Author: jochen.hardt@gmx.de 2Clinic for Urology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany Received 2 December 2009; revised 8 January 2010; accepted 15 January 2010. ABSTRACT have been criticised as having flaws in design and anal- yses [5]. For example, in the study by Spiegel et al. [6], The role of coping in the survival of cancer is a the control group showed an unusually strong decline in controversial topic. To specifiy the influence of survival, i.e. an atypical form for a survival curve. The coping on survival time, we conducted a longi- intervention group, however, displayed a rather normal tudinal, prospective and observational study. In survival curve, as would be expected for the given type a preoperative interview, 105 patients with pri- of cancer. Furthermore, the sample sizes in these studies mary bladder cancer were asked about their have been criticised as being small on average-often active and depressive coping strategies. Ten fewer than 40 subjects. In 2007, three replication studies years later, the survival rate was recorded;