Screening for cancer-related distress: Summary of evidence from tools to programmes

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 194-204

  Bidstrup, Pernille Envold ^a   Johansen, Christoffer ^a,b   Mitchell, Alex J ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

DEPRESSION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

EID: 78651508502     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2010.533192     Document Type: Review

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