When a parent has cancer: Challenges to patients, their families and health providers

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 795-808

  Krauel, Kerstin ^a   Simon, Andrea ^a   Krause Hebecker, Nadine ^a   Czimbalmos, Agnes ^b   Bottomley, Andrew ^b   Flechtner, Henning ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

children; coping; emotional and psychological functioning; parental cancer; psychosocial burden

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FAMILY; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD OF IMPAIRED PARENTS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY HEALTH; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84871528283     PISSN: 14737167     EISSN: 17448379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erp.12.62     Document Type: Review

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