Information needs and awareness of diagnosis in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy: A report from Greece

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-321

  Iconomou, Gregoris ^a   Viha, Anna ^a   Koutras, Angelos ^a   Vagenakis, Apostolos G ^a   Kalofonos, Haralabos P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Awareness of diagnosis; Cancer patients; Information needs

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFORMATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; AWARENESS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0036068275     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216302pm574oa     Document Type: Article

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