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64 The Experimental Research Approach3 Experimental ResearchCausationDefinitionAdvantages andSettingsDisadvantagesTypesWays to 5/22/2003 9:41 AM Page 64In June 1999, the American Psychological Association published a special issue of TheMonitoron psychology and cancer. The thrust of this special issue was the contributionmade by psychology in cancer Research and cancer caregiving. At first glance, it mayseem strange to focus on the role of psychology in cancer because cancer is typicallythought of as a physical disorder with little or no psychological component. However,we are increasingly finding that the mind and the body are not separate entities but areinterconnected. One has only to be associated with a cancer patient to realize the psy-chological impact of this , for example, the case of Mrs. A, a forty-nine-year-old A s mother was diagnosed with cancer when she was twelve. For the next five years, Mrs. A s mother underwent a series of treatments consisting of a radicalmastectomy, radiation that burned and scarred her skin, and chemotherapy so toxicthat it left her crouched on her hands and knees, vomiting onto newspapers by herbed.

the meaning of cause and effect. However, the definition of these terms has eluded philosophers for centuries. Cause The intuitive definition most of us have is that a cause is something that makes

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