Why psychosocial care is difficult to integrate into routine cancer care: Stigma is the elephant in the room

JNCCN Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 362-366

  Holland, Jimmie C ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIDS RELATED COMPLEX; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; FEAR; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTEGRATION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LUNG CANCER; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RESPONSIBILITY; RURAL AREA; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SKILL; STIGMA; THERMOMETER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 77951992116     PISSN: 15401405     EISSN: 15401413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2010.0028     Document Type: Editorial

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