Screening and comorbidity of clinical levels of fear of cancer recurrence

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 481-491

  Simard, Sébastien ^a,b   Savard, Josée ^b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Clinical levels; Comorbidity; Fear of cancer recurrence; Fear of progression; Psychiatric disorders; Screening

Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84939261993     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-015-0424-4     Document Type: Article

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