Offering a choice between two adjuvant chemotherapy regimens: A pilot study to develop a decision aid for women with breast cancer

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 283-291

  Irwin, Ellen ^a,c   Arnold, Andrew ^b,c   Whelan, Timothy J ^b,c   Reyno, Leonard M ^b,c   Cranton, Patricia ^d  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (Canada)

^c JURAVINSKI CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^d BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Breast neoplasm; Patient education; Quality of life; Treatment decision making

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG CHOICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEARNING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; VOMITING; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EDUCATION; MALE; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT STUDY; PREMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN;

EID: 0033018921     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-3991(98)00117-7     Document Type: Article

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