Associations among awareness of prognosis, hopefulness, and coping in patients with advanced cancer participating in phase I clinical trials

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 644-651

  Helft, Paul R ^a,b   Hlubocky, Fay ^c   Wen, Ming ^c   Daugherty, Christopher K ^c,d  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Indiana University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer patients; Awareness of prognosis; Coping; Hope

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PERCEPTION; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TERMINAL DISEASE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENTS;

EID: 0141954204     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-003-0496-y     Document Type: Article

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