Styles of coping with stress of cancer in patients treated with radiotherapy and expectations towards medical staff - Practical implications

Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 61-66

  Cieślak, Katarzyna ^a   Pawlukiewicz, Mariusz ^a   Gołab, Dorota ^a   Konys, Monika ^a   Kuśnierkiewicz, Maria ^a   Kleka, Paweł ^b  

^a GREATER POLAND CANCER CENTRE   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cancer; Radiotherapy; Stress; Styles of coping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COLORECTAL CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HELPLESSNESS; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

EID: 84875588475     PISSN: 15071367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rpor.2012.10.006     Document Type: Article

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