'It's not the easy part': The experience of significant others of women with early stage breast cancer, at treatment completion

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-85

  Lethborg, Carrie E ^a   Kissane, David ^a   Burns, W Ivon ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Lived experience; Partners; Post treatment; Primary carers; Significant others; Treatment completion

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY CANCER; EXHAUSTION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SELF EVALUATION; SIGNIFICANT OTHER; SOCIAL CONTROL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSE; TREATMENT COMPLETION;

EID: 0042845847     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J010v37n01_04     Document Type: Article

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