Offering choice of surgical treatment to women with breast cancer

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 209-214

  Fallowfield, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Choice; Decision making; Information; Participation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION;

EID: 0031106742     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(96)00947-0     Document Type: Article

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