'You don't want to lose your ovaries because you think 'I might become a man''. Women's perceptions of prophylactic surgery as a cancer risk management option

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-275

  Hallowell, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT COUNSELING; RISK MANAGEMENT; SEXUALITY;

ADULT; BODY IMAGE; COST OF ILLNESS; DECISION MAKING; ENGLAND; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MASTECTOMY; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OBSERVATION; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0031804523     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1611(199805/06)7:3<263::AID-PON307>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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