Symptom reporting in cancer patients: The role of negative affect and experienced social stigma

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 983-995

  Koller, Michael ^a   Kussman, Jochen ^b   Lorenz, Wilfried ^a   Jenkins, Melissa ^a   Voss, Maria ^a   Arens, Erich ^a   Richter, Erika ^a   Rothmund, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b AK Wandsbek ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

negative affect; quality of life; social stigma; somatic symptoms; surgical cancer patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ABDOMINAL NEOPLASMS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL VALUES; THORACIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030028390     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960301)77:5<983::AID-CNCR27>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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