Life events, coping and breast cancer: State of the art

Biomedicine and Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 229-233

  Gerits, P ^a  

^a Ministry of Public Health   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Life events; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRESS;

EID: 0034210337     PISSN: 07533322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0753-3322(00)80064-5     Document Type: Article

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