Cancer and the media: How does the news report on treatment and outcomes?

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 515-518

  Fishman, Jessica ^a   Have, Thomas Ten ^a   Casarett, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; HAIR LOSS; HUMAN; MASS COMMUNICATION; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE;

HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77950982920     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.11     Document Type: Article

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