Facilitating patients' coping with fatigue during chemotherapy - Pilot outcomes

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 300-308

  Ream, Emma ^a   Richardson, Alison ^a   Alexander Dann, Caroline ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotherapy; Fatigue; Intervention; Patient education

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; VINCRISTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; NURSING; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WELLBEING;

EID: 0036323907     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200208000-00006     Document Type: Article

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