The experience of fatigue in Turkish patients receiving chemotherapy

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 721-728

  Yurtsever, Sabire ^a  

^a MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; SEX RATIO; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CAUSALITY; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TURKEY;

EID: 34548462942     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.721-728     Document Type: Article

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