Advanced prostate cancer patients' ways of coping with the hormonal therapy's effect on body, sexuality, and spousal ties

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1378-1392

  Navon, Liora ^a   Morag, Amira ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coping; Hormonal therapy; Prostate cancer; Self classification; Self stigmatization

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMINIZATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTIMACY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SPOUSE; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN RELATION; ISRAEL; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ISRAEL; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SEXUALITY; SPOUSES;

EID: 1542780027     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732303258016     Document Type: Article

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