Receiving a screen-detected diagnosis of cancer: The experience of participants in the UK flexible sigmoidoscopy trial

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 784-802

  Miles, Anne ^a   Wardle, Jane ^a   Atkin, Wendy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SCREENING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON POLYP; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHOCK; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; WELLBEING;

ADENOMA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARCINOMA; COLONIC POLYPS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

EID: 0346402963     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.705     Document Type: Article

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