Cancer as biographical disruption: Constructions of living with cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2033-2040

  Hubbard, Gill ^a   Forbat, Liz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biographical disruption; Cancer survivor; Cancer survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AWARENESS; BIOGRAPHICAL DISRUPTION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SUPPORTIVE CARE; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SCOTLAND; SURVIVORS; WRITING;

EID: 84865165112     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1311-9     Document Type: Review

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