Are coping strategies related to disease outcome in early breast cancer?

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 255-264

  Buddeberg, Claus ^a   Sieber, Martin ^a   Wolf, Christiane ^a   Landolt Ritter, Claudine ^b   Richter, Dietmar ^c   Steiner, Rolf ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Hosp of Gynecology and Obstetrics   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÄTSSPITAL ZÜRICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Coping; Death; Disease outcome; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0029913293     PISSN: 00223999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-3999(95)00518-8     Document Type: Article

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