The clinical nurse specialist in gynaecological oncology - The role in vulval cancer

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 591-607

  Allen, June ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical nurse specialist; Communication; Gynaecological neoplasms; Patient information; Quality of life; Sexual dysfunction; Vulval cancer nursing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONSULTATION; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NAUSEA; NURSE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT CANCER; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOMITING; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; WELLBEING;

EID: 0141607621     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6934(03)00041-5     Document Type: Review

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