Disclosure of cancer diagnosis and quality of life in cancer patients: Should it be the same everywhere?

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Montazeri, Ali ^a   Tavoli, Azadeh ^b,c   Mohagheghi, Mohammad Ali ^c   Roshan, Rasool ^b   Tavoli, Zahra ^b  

^a AVICENNA RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COGNITION; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; EMOTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECTUM CANCER; SMALL INTESTINE CANCER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGED; CULTURE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60849108925     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-39     Document Type: Article

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