Cancer’s positive flip side: posttraumatic growth after childhood cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 195-203

  Gianinazzi, Micòl E ^a   Rueegg, Corina S ^a   Vetsch, Janine ^a   Lüer, Sonja ^b   Kuehni, Claudia E ^b   Michel, Gisela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Childhood cancer survivors; Cohort study; Posttraumatic growth; Questionnaire survey

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PERSONAL STRENGTH; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH; POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH INVENTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SOLID TUMOR; TREATMENT DURATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; COHORT ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84949103887     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-015-2746-1     Document Type: Article

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