Coping with cancer: The perspective of patients' relatives

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-211

  Hagedoorn, Mariët ^a   Kreicbergs, Ulrika ^b,c   Appel, Charlotte ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SOPHIAHEMMET UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Sweden)

^d INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEREAVEMENT; CANCER PATIENT; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FAMILY ATTITUDE; FAMILY COPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PERCEPTION;

EID: 78651498661     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.536165     Document Type: Review

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