The impact of cancer and its treatment on wound healing

Wounds UK

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 87-95

  Regan, Patricia O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Cancer treatments; Clinical presentation; Nursing management; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; STEROID;

BODY IMAGE; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHRONIC WOUND; DEPRESSION; ERYTHEMA; FATIGUE; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; LUNG TOXICITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; NURSING CARE; NURSING MANAGEMENT; OTOTOXICITY; PATIENT CARE; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN DISEASE; STOMATITIS; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

EID: 34547609681     PISSN: 17466814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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