Effects of laughter therapy on quality of life in patients with cancer: An open-label, randomized controlled trial

• Toshitaka Morishima ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: morishima.t@oici.jp

  Affiliation Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0747-3287

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• Isao Miyashiro,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

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• Norimitsu Inoue,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Tumor Immunology, Research Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan, Department of Molecular Genetics, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan

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• Mitsuko Kitasaka,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing Services, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

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• Takashi Akazawa,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Cancer Drug Discovery and Development, Research Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-9228

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• Akemi Higeno,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

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• Atsushi Idota,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

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• Akira Sato,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cancer Control Center, Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3720-6056

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• Tetsuya Ohira,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

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• Masato Sakon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

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• Nariaki Matsuura

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Osaka International Cancer Institute, Osaka, Japan

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