Coping with threat: Implications for women with a family history of breast cancer

Psychosomatics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-339

  Gilbar, Ora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENIAL; FAMILY HISTORY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

EID: 0031824177     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0033-3182(98)71321-0     Document Type: Article

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