Diagnostic delay causes more psychological distress in female than in male cancer patients

Anticancer Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 995-1000

  Risberg, Terje ^a   Sørbye, Sveinung W ^b   Norum, Jan ^a   Wist, Erik A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cancer; Diagnostic delay; Distress; Patient delay

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEX FACTORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029898437     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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