Roles of the urologist and nurse from the perspective of patients with prostate cancer receiving luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone analogue therapy

BJU International

Volumn 102, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1419-1424

  Lebret, Thierry ^a   Bouregba, Alain ^b  

^a FOCH HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Ligue Nationale Contre Le Cancer ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Hormonal therapy; LHRH agonist; Multidisciplinary care; Nurse led services; Professional patient relations; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY PRACTICE; FRANCE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; UROLOGY;

EID: 54949104374     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2008.07785.x     Document Type: Article

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