Making sense of living under the shadow of death: Adjusting to a recurrent breast cancer illness

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1116-1130

  Sarenmalm, Kenne Elisabeth ^a,b   Thorén Jönsson, Anna Lisa ^b   Gaston Johansson Fannie, F ^b,c   Öhlén, Joakim ^b  

^a SKARABORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chronic illness; Distress; Existential approaches; Grounded theory; Illness and disease; Life threatening; Palliative care; Psychosocial issues; Quality of life; Transition theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO LIFE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEATH; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENT CANCER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; WOMEN;

EID: 68349089065     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309341728     Document Type: Article

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