Adjusting to life after esophagectomy: The experience of survivors and carers

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1485-1494

  McCorry, Noleen K ^a   Dempster, Martin ^a   Clarke, Ceara ^b   Doyle, Robert ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Caregiving; Coping and adaptation; Focus groups; Holistic care; Psychosocial aspects; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; EMOTION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; HOLISTIC CARE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT CODING; PEER GROUP; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 70350012292     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732309348366     Document Type: Article

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