Prostate cancer: Patients' and spouses' coping and marital adjustment

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-302

  Lavery, J F ^a   Clarke, V A ^a,b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Anti Cancer Council of Victoria   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMPOTENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPOUSE;

EID: 0032806117     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/135485099106225     Document Type: Article

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