Cancer patients and survivors: Changing words or changing culture?

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2468-2471

  Surbone, A ^a   Annunziata, M A ^b   Santoro, A ^c   Tirelli, U ^b   Tralongo, P ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^c HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^d FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL TIME;

DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF-ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884713502     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdt229     Document Type: Editorial

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