Cancer patients' perceptions of their disease and its treatment

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 355-358

  Mackillop, W J ^a   Stewart, W E ^a   Ginsburg, A D ^a   Stewart, S S ^a  

^a Ontario Cancer Foundation Kingston Clinic and Queen’s University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PALLIATIVE CARE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023777523     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1988.218     Document Type: Article

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