Psychosexual adjustment in adolescent cancer survivors

Cancer Investigation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 51-58

  Woolverton, Karolyn ^a   Ostroff, Jamie S ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTIMACY; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DISORDER; PUBERTY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 0033950790     PISSN: 07357907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/07357900009023062     Document Type: Review

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