Refusing treatment

Oncologist

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 634-636

  Frenkel, Moshe ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^c MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alternative medicine; Cancer care; Complementary medicine; Declining cancer treatment; Patient doctor communication; Refusing treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CANCER CARE; COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE; DECLINING CANCER TREATMENT; PATIENT-DOCTOR COMMUNICATION; REFUSING TREATMENT;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84878181089     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2012-0436     Document Type: Article

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