How do patients and spouses deal with the serious facts of malignant glioma?

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 305-313

  Salander, Pär ^a   Spetz, Agneta ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitude to death; Awareness; Brain tumour; Communication; Relationships

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYING; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MORTALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; AWARENESS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPOUSES; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 0036067894     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216302pm569oa     Document Type: Article

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