Cultural attitudes to cancer management in traditional South-East Asian patients

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 370-374

  Ong, K Jane ^a   Back, Michael F ^a   Lu, Jiade J ^a   Shakespeare, Thomas S ^a   Wynne, Christopher J ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Asian; Cancer; Culture

Indexed keywords

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CARCINOMA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; DYING; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; REVIEW; SOUTHEAST ASIA; SYMPTOM; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE;

CULTURE; FAMILY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SINGAPORE;

EID: 0036454485     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1673.2002.t01-1-01085.x     Document Type: Review

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