"I'm just waiting...": An exploration of the experience of living and dying with primary malignant glioma

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 389-397

  Philip, Jennifer ^a,b   Collins, Anna ^a   Brand, Caroline A ^b,c   Moore, Gaye ^a   Lethborg, Carrie ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^b,c   Murphy, Michael A ^a   Gold, Michelle ^d  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Palliative Care Service   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain tumour; Disease management; Malignant glioma; Models of care; Palliative care; Supportive care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHABITING PERSON; COPING BEHAVIOR; DETERIORATION; DISABILITY; DYING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GROUNDED THEORY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; INTERVIEW; LONELINESS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIMARY MALIGNANT GLIOMA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84896050505     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1986-1     Document Type: Article

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