Cancer-related health worries and psychological distress among older adult, long-term cancer survivors

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 306-320

  Deimling, Gary T ^a   Bowman, Karen F ^a   Sterns, Samantha ^a   Wagner, Louis J ^a   Kahana, Boaz ^b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Health worries; Long term survivorship; Older adults; Psychological distress

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPTIMISM; PESSIMISM; PREDICTION; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECOND CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645949713     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.955     Document Type: Article

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