Fear of cancer recurrence in adult cancer survivors: A systematic review of quantitative studies

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 300-322

  Simard, Sébastien ^a   Thewes, Belinda ^b   Humphris, Gerry ^c   Dixon, Mélanie ^a   Hayden, Ceara ^c   Mireskandari, Shab ^b   Ozakinci, Gozde ^c  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fear of recurrence; Quantitative; Review; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

FEAR; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

FEAR; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84881224627     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-013-0272-z     Document Type: Review

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