Uncertainty in prostate cancer: Ethnic and family patterns

Cancer Practice

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-113

  Germino, Barbara B ^a   Mishel, Merle H ^a   Belyea, Michael ^a   Harris, Lorna ^b   Ware, Andrea ^a   Mohler, James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NC AandT University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Family coping; Prostate cancer; Psychological adjustment; Social support; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY LIFE; GRIEF; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY; FEAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SICK ROLE;

EID: 0031970067     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.1998.1998006107.x     Document Type: Review

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