Chemotherapy for advanced breast cancer: What influences oncologists' decision-making?

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1172-1178

  Grunfeld, E A ^a   Ramirez, A J ^a   Maher, E J ^b   Peach, D ^b   Young, T ^b   Albery, I P ^a   Richards, M A ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advanced breast cancer; Clinical decision making; Palliative chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; MITOXANTRONE; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; COMORBIDITY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE;

EID: 0035805049     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/bjoc.2001.1733     Document Type: Article

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