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Familial Caregivers of Patients with Brain Cancer

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Tumors of the Central Nervous system, Volume 3

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Abstract

Brain cancer affects not only the quality of life of individuals with the disease but also that of their family members and close friends. The impact on various aspects of the family caregivers’ quality of life (QOL) is significant throughout the trajectory of the illness, such as the acute and mid- to long-term survivorship phases a well as the bereavement phase. Theoretically and methodologically rigorous research on various aspects of the family’s quality of life, including physical, spiritual, and behavioral adjustment to brain cancer in the family, will help improving not only the quality of life of family caregivers of brain cancer patients but also the quality care the family members will provide to enhance the quality of life of the patients.

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Kim, Y. (2011). Familial Caregivers of Patients with Brain Cancer. In: Hayat, M. (eds) Tumors of the Central Nervous system, Volume 3. Tumors of the Central Nervous System, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1399-4_34

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