Activism among exceptional patients with cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1125-1132

  Frenkel, Moshe ^a   Ari, Shachar Lev ^b   Engebretson, Joan ^a   Peterson, Noemi ^a   Maimon, Yair ^b   Cohen, Lorenzo ^a   Kacen, Lea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Activism; Cancer care; Cancer survivorship; Exceptional patient; Hope; Remarkable recovery; Resilience; Spontaneous regression; Spontaneous remission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIO RECORDING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NARRATIVE; OVARY CANCER; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TAPE RECORDING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80051580206     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-010-0918-6     Document Type: Article

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