Prevalence and correlates of cancer survivors’ supportive care needs 6 months after diagnosis: a population-based cross-sectional study
Open Access
- 18 April 2012
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Cancer
- Vol. 12 (1), 150
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-150
Abstract
An understanding of the nature and magnitude of the impact of cancer is critical to planning how best to deliver supportive care to the growing population of cancer survivors whose need for care may span many years. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of and factors associated with moderate to high level unmet supportive care needs among adult cancer survivors six months after diagnosis.Keywords
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