“Because you know there's an end to it”: Caring for a relative or friend with advanced breast cancer

Palliative and Supportive Care

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-163

  Sinding, Christina ^a  

^a Ontario Breast Cancer Community Research Initiative   (Canada)

Author keywords

Caregiver burden; Informal care; Sociology of dying; The good death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST TUMOR; CAREGIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33645802790     PISSN: 14789515     EISSN: 14789523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1478951503030189     Document Type: Article

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