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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"cancer illness"”.
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Untersuchung zur Prävalenz und zum Verlauf posttraumatischer Stressreaktionen bei Patienten mit Tumorerkrankung
The diagnosis of a cancer illness means a severe traumatic event for the patients and is a potential stressor for the development of post-traumatic stress disorders. This circumstance is complicated by the fact that a cancer illness does not present an isolated event, but is a persistent stressor. …
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Needs of familial caregivers of cancer patients across the advanced cancer disease trajectory.
… providing increasing amounts of care to advanced cancer patients. Increased understanding of caregivers' needs is vital in providing necessary support to lessen caregiver burden and comorbidity. This study examines particular information needs across a variety of specific events in the advanced …
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Dear Dear Dear
Dear Dear Dear is a collection of prose block poems that follow a queer speaker who is being confined by the world around him (the Midwest, the speaker's family/family values, gender norms, to one's own body, mortality, Monsanto, etc.) that tries to control and define him as a person. Dear Dear …
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Illness Representations of Breast Cancer among Hispanics
Hispanics are more likely to die from breast cancer compared to non - Hispanic whites matched on stage and age at diagnosis. Higher mortality rates among Hispanics are attributed to cancer - related disparities across the cancer continuum including later - stage detection. While research has shown …