Pain and other symptoms during the first year after radical and conservative surgery for breast cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2024-2031

  Tasmuth, T ^a   Von Smitten, K ^a   Kalso, E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast surgery; Chronic pain; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARM EDEMA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER SURGERY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030457610     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.1996.671     Document Type: Article

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