Early postsurgery experience of prostate cancer patients and spouses

Cancer Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 165-171

  Phillips, Catherine ^a   Gray, Ross E ^a   Fitch, Margaret I ^a   Labrecque, Manon ^a   Fergus, Karen ^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; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITATIVE DIAGNOSIS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONTARIO; PATIENT EDUCATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPOUSES; TIME FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0033942801     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.2000.84009.x     Document Type: Article

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