Hit by waves-living with local advanced or localized prostate cancer treated with endocrine therapy or under active surveillance

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 382-389

  Ervik, Bente ^a,b   Nordøy, Tone ^a,b   Asplund, Kenneth ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^c MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Active surveillance; Endocrine therapy; Hermeneutic; Living with; Loneliness; Phenomenology; Prostate cancer; Spouse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; ESTROGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TAPE RECORDING;

EID: 77955229738     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3181d1c8ea     Document Type: Article

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