Occupation as a vehicle to surmount the psychosocial challenges of cancer

Occupational Therapy in Health Care

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1-16

  Lyons, Kathleen Doyle ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Death; Interpersonal relations; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WELLBEING;

EID: 33746615608     PISSN: 07380577     EISSN: 15413098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J003v20n02_01     Document Type: Article

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