Telephone support groups. A nontraditional approach to reaching underserved cancer patients

Cancer Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 156-159

  Colón, Yvette ^a  

^a Cancer Care Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

support group; telephone; underserved cancer patients

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEPHONE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SELF DISCLOSURE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TELEPHONE;

EID: 0030014975     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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