Coping well with advanced cancer: A serial qualitative interview study with patients and family carers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Walshe, Catherine ^a   Roberts, Diane ^b   Appleton, Lynda ^c   Calman, Lynn ^d   Large, Paul ^e   Lloyd Williams, Mari ^f   Grande, Gunn ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c CLATTERBRIDGE CENTRE FOR ONCOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e User Representative   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PEER GROUP; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UNITED KINGDOM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; NURSING; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85010369300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169071     Document Type: Article

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