Touching the other's suffering: Cross-cultural challenges in palliative treatment along geopolitical crossroads

Oncologist

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 212-214

  Ben Arye, Eran ^a,b   Silbermann, Michael ^c   Dagash, Jamal ^a,b   Shulman, Bella ^a   Schiff, Elad ^d,e  

^a CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c Middle East Cancer Consortium   (Israel)

^d BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e Law and Ethics   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; BLACK CUMIN; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HERB; HUMAN; MENINGEAL METASTASIS; MOOD CHANGE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; WHEATGRASS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE REPORT; CONFLICT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; ISLAM; ISRAEL; JEW; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURALLY COMPETENT CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; ISRAEL; JEWS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 84894102933     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2013-0244     Document Type: Note

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