“People Don’t Understand That It Is Not Easy Being a Cancer Survivor”: Communicating and Negotiating Identity Throughout Cancer Survivorship

Southern Communication Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-19

  Miller, Laura E ^a  

^a Innovation and Technology Simulation   (United States)

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EID: 84927547003     PISSN: 1041794X     EISSN: 19303203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2014.936971     Document Type: Article

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