Current state and future prospects of research on fear of cancer recurrence

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 424-427

  Lebel, Sophie ^a   Ozakinci, Gozde ^b   Humphris, Gerald ^b   Thewes, Belinda ^c   Prins, Judith ^c   Dinkel, Andreas ^d   Butow, Phyllis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

editorial; expert opinion; fear of cancer recurrence; future research directions; knowledge gap

Indexed keywords

CANCER RECURRENCE; FEAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ONCOLOGY; CANADA; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONSENSUS; NEOPLASM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STANDARDS;

CANADA; CANCER SURVIVORS; CONSENSUS; FEAR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RECURRENCE;

EID: 85027954019     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.4103     Document Type: Article

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