Does fear of cancer recurrence predict cancer survivors' health care use?

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 901-906

  Lebel, Sophie ^a   Tomei, Christina ^a   Feldstain, Andrea ^a   Beattie, Sara ^a   McCallum, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer survivors; Fear of cancer recurrence; Health care use

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLON CANCER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEAR; FEAR OF CANCER RECURRENCE; FEAR OF CANCER RECURRENCE INVENTORY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84874109218     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1685-3     Document Type: Article

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