Posttraumatic stress and psychological growth in children with cancer: Has the traumatic impact of cancer been overestimated?

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 641-646

  Phipps, Sean ^a   Klosky, James L ^a   Long, Alanna ^a   Hudson, Melissa M ^a   Huang, Qinlei ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Noll, Robert B ^b  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; MENTAL STRESS; NEOPLASM; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84898820104     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2013.49.8212     Document Type: Article

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