The Role of Spirituality and Religious Coping in the Quality of Life of Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Palliative Radiation Therapy

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-87

  Vallurupalli, Mounica ^a   Lauderdale, Katharine ^b   Balboni, Michael J ^a,c   Phelps, Andrea C ^c   Block, Susan D ^c   Ng, Andrea K ^c   Kachnic, Lisa A ^d   VanderWeele, Tyler J ^e   Balboni, Tracy A ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MCGILL QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPIRITUAL CARE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 84857530297     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: 1879596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suponc.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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