How women receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer cope with their treatment: A risk management perspective

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 314-321

  Cowley, Lorraine ^a   Heyman, Bob ^b   Stanton, Michelle ^c   Milner, Susan J ^c  

^a NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Breast cancer; Health care evaluation; Medicine; Nursing; Patient career; Risk communication; Risk management; Trajectory projections

Indexed keywords

ALKYLATING AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034133589     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2000.01295.x     Document Type: Review

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