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A study in The Annals of Family Medicine surveyed 349 participants who imagined experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms while a relative had recently been diagnosed with bowel cancer. Researchers found that simply communicating normal test results did not fully alleviate patients’ anxiety. The findings suggest that physician warmth and perceived competence play a role in reducing worry when test outcomes are normal.

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