`I don't have any energy': The experience of fatigue in young adult survivors of childhood cancer

European Journal of Oncology Nursing

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 20-28

  Langeveld, Nelia ^a   Ubbink, Mathilde ^a   Smets, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Paediatric oncology, childhood cancer, long term survivors, fatigue

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034147436     PISSN: 14623889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/ejon.1999.0063     Document Type: Article

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