The importance of expectations on the recovery period after cancer treatment

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 190-198

  Winterling, Jeanette ^a   Glimelius, Bengt ^b,c   Nordin, Karin ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Expectations; Oncology; Optimism; Prospective; Recovery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; COLON CANCER; CONVALESCENCE; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BELIEF; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; OPTIMISM; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPOUSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONVALESCENCE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 39549119325     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1216     Document Type: Article

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