Adjustment of women and their husbands to recurrent breast cancer

Research in Nursing & Health

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1995, Pages 515-524

  Northouse, Laurel L ^a   Laten, Diane ^b   Reddy, Paula ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029610506     PISSN: 01606891     EISSN: 1098240X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nur.4770180607     Document Type: Article

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