Mothers' stories of the school-age child's experience with the mother's breast cancer

Journal of Psychosocial Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 25-43

  Zahlis, Ellen Hooper ^a,b   Lewis, Frances Marcus ^b  

^a Cancer Lifeline ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; MOTHER CHILD RELATION;

EID: 0032438360     PISSN: 07347332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J077V16N02_02     Document Type: Article

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