Why most women with breast cancer still undergo mastectomy

Breast Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 69-70

  Masood, Shahla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL ETHICS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; LITERATURE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANECDOTES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037827799     PISSN: 1075122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4741.2003.09201.x     Document Type: Editorial

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