An examination of the psychosocial factors influencing colorectal cancer patients' communication of colorectal cancer patient risk with their siblings

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2907-2912

  Lawsin, Catalina ^a   DuHamel, Katherine ^b   Itzkowitz, Steven ^c   Brown, Karen ^d   Lim, Helen ^d   Jandorf, Lina ^d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SCREENING; CAUCASIAN; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SIBLING RELATIONS; SIBLINGS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 72749086851     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2558     Document Type: Article

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