Cancer, meaning making, and hope: The treatment dedication project

Families, Systems and Health

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 155-160

  Weingarten, Kaethe ^a,b  

^a Witnessing Project   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; GRIEF; HUMAN; HUMOR; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RAGE; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 22544443035     PISSN: 10917527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.23.2.155     Document Type: Review

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