"If god wanted me yesterday, i wouldn't be here today": Religious and spiritual themes in patients' experiences of advanced cancer

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 581-588

  Alcorn, Sara R ^a,b   Balboni, Michael J ^a,c   Prigerson, Holly G ^a,b   Reynolds, Amy ^d   Phelps, Andrea C ^a   Wright, Alexi A ^a   Block, Susan D ^a,b   Peteet, John R ^a,b   Kachnic, Lisa A ^e   Balboni, Tracy A ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RELIGION; SPIRITUAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SPIRITUALITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952868125     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2009.0343     Document Type: Article

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