Adjustment of husbands and wives to breast cancer

Cancer Practice

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 92-98

  Walker, B Lee ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustment; breast cancer; husband; spouse; wife

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SPOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPOUSES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0030907405     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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