Presurgery experiences of prostate cancer patients and their spouses

Cancer Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 130-135

  Gray, Ross E ^a   Fitch, Margaret I ^a   Phillips, Catherine ^a   Labrecque, Manon ^a   Klotz, Laurence ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjustment; Coping; Experience; Prostate cancer; Qualitative; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERVIEW; MALE; MARRIAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PROSTATE CANCER; SPOUSE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SPOUSES;

EID: 0032912522     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.1999.07308.x     Document Type: Article

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