Peer mentoring and survivors' stories for cancer patients: Positive effects and some cautionary notes

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 163-166

  Rini, Christine ^a   Lawsin, Catalina ^a   Austin, Jane ^a   DuHamel, Katherine ^a   Markarian, Yeraz ^a   Burkhalter, Jack ^a   Labay, Larissa ^a   Redd, William H ^a  

^a WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORBIDITY; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN RELATION; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR; TEACHER; TEACHING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COUNSELING; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MENTORS; NEOPLASMS; PEER GROUP; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS; TEACHING;

EID: 35548931607     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.08.8567     Document Type: Review

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