Childhood cancer - Are there predictors of parental well-being?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 799-800

  Bergsträsser, Eva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; NEPHROBLASTOMA; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID TUMOR; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEOPLASMS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 34548562548     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0257-4     Document Type: Editorial

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