The experience of uncertainty in young adults with cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Corbeil, Amélie ^a   Laizner, Andréa Maria ^b   Hunter, Patricia ^c   Hutchison, Nancy ^c  

^a Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton and Cie   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemotheraphy; Uncertainty; Young adult

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESMOID TUMOR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SARCOMA; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGE; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNCERTAINTY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 70349120961     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181a5690d     Document Type: Article

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