The oncologic radiotherapy experience for patients: a poison-drug La experiencia de los pacientes sometidos a radioterapia oncológica: una medicina-veneno A experiência da radioterapia oncológica para os pacientes: um remédio-veneno

The study aimed at understanding the patients' experience with oncologic radiotherapy. The anthropological interpretative approach and the ethnographic method guided the investigation. Ten patients took part in the study. They were of both genders, within the age range from 34 to 80 years old a...

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Main Authors: Rosani Manfrin Muniz, Marcia Maria Fontão Zago
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2008-12-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692008000600010