The relative importance of cancer-related and general health worries and distress among older adult, long-term cancer survivors

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 182-190

  Deimling, Gary T ^a   Brown, Sherri P ^a   Albitz, Casey ^a   Burant, Christopher J ^a   Mallick, Nabeel ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer survivorship; cancer worry; health worry; older adults

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT WORRY; PROSTATE CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DIAGNOSIS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER SURVIVORS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84949651537     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.4015     Document Type: Article

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