Needing a hand to hold: Lived experiences during the trajectory of care for patients with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 324-334

  Larsson, Maria ^a   Hedelin, Birgitta ^a   Athlin, Elsy ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Nursing; Nutrition; Phenomenology; Radiotherapy; Trajectory of care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 34547581469     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000281722.56996.07     Document Type: Article

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