The Concerns About Recurrence Questionnaire: validation of a brief measure of fear of cancer recurrence amongst Danish and Australian breast cancer survivors

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 68-79

  Thewes, Belinda ^a   Zachariae, Robert ^b,c   Christensen, Søren ^b,c   Nielsen, Tine ^d   Butow, Phyllis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fear of recurrence; Measurement scale; Oncology; Psychological assessment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; AUSTRALIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84905879829     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-014-0383-1     Document Type: Article

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