Ovarian cancer treatment: The benefit of patient telephone follow-up post-chemotherapy
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Ovarian cancer treatment: the benefit of patient telephone follow-up post-chemotherapy.
Approximately 2,500 women in Canada were diagnosed with cancer of the ovary in 1997 (NCIC, 1997). Standard therapy consists of surgical tumour debulking and cytotoxic chemotherapy. Very little data are available examining the most appropriate outpatient management of patients receiving chemotherapy. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of and benefit received from telephone foll...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Oncology Nursing Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1181-912X
DOI: 10.5737/1181912x94175178