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The family with cancer
Author(s) -
ROBINSON SARAH
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
european journal of cancer care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.849
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1365-2354
pISSN - 0961-5423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2354.1992.tb00108.x
Subject(s) - medicine , perspective (graphical) , cancer , family member , family medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science
The purpose of this article is to describe what it is like to live with cancer from the perspective of the family: to explore the challenges that families face when a member has cancer; to consider how families influence the experience of the person diagnosed with cancer; and to describe how families cope with a cancer diagnosis.