Fear of cancer recurrence in colorectal cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 555-562

  Custers, José A E ^a   Gielissen, Marieke F M ^a   Janssen, Stephanie H V ^a   de Wilt, Johannes H W ^a   Prins, Judith B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer; Fear of cancer recurrence; Oncology; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT WORRY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REASSURANCE; ANXIETY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NETHERLANDS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84952877019     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-015-2808-4     Document Type: Article

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