Informing cancer patients: Whose truth matters?

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 809, Issue , 1997, Pages 508-513

  Sabbioni, Marzio E E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT INFORMATION; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0030936565     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48113.x     Document Type: Article

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