Prognostic significance of psychosocial factors in African-American and white breast cancer patients: A population-based study

Cancer

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1299-1308

  Soler Vila, Hosanna ^a   Kasl, Stanislav V ^a   Jones, Beth A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Black; Breast neoplasms; Coping; Mortality; Prognosis; Psychology; Social support; Survival analysis; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 0041916159     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.11670     Document Type: Article

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