Surgical options for early-stage breast cancer: Factors associated with patient choice and postoperative quality of life

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1325-1333

  Pusic, Andrea ^b   Thompson, Tracey A ^b   Kerrigan, Carolyn L ^a   Sargeant, Risa ^b   Slezak, Sheri ^b   Chang, Bernard W ^b   Helzlsouer, Kathy J ^b   Manson, Paul N ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MAMMAPLASTY; MASTECTOMY, MODIFIED RADICAL; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0032878320     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199910000-00013     Document Type: Article

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