Decision-making control: Why men decline treatment for prostate cancer

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 217-224

  White, Margaret A ^b   Verhoef, Marja J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alternative therapies; Decision making control; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0141650702     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735403256411     Document Type: Article

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