Early integration of palliative cancer care: patients’ and caregivers’ challenges, treatment preferences, and knowledge of illness and treatment throughout the cancer trajectory

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 921-931

  Preisler, Martina ^a   Heuse, Silke ^a   Riemer, Manuel ^b   Kendel, Friederike ^a   Letsch, Anne ^a  

^a BERLIN INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Germany)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cancer trajectory; Caregivers; Needs; Palliative care; Patients

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL CANCER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY INTEGRATION OF PALLIATIVE CANCER CARE; GROUNDED THEORY; HUMAN; MYELOMA; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL CELL CARCINOMA; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85030316070     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-017-3911-5     Document Type: Article

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