Treatment decision making and adjustment to breast cancer: A longitudinal study

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 313-322

  Stanton, Annette L ^a   Cameron, Christine L ^a   Danoff Burg, Sharon ^a   Estes, Melissa A ^b   Estes, Norman C ^b   Irving, Lori M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EXPECTANCY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MASTECTOMY, RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SICK ROLE;

EID: 0031969841     PISSN: 0022006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-006X.66.2.313     Document Type: Article

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