The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer breast cancer-specific quality-of-life questionnaire module: First results from a three-country field study

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 2756-2768

  Sprangers, M A ^a   Groenvold, M ^a   Arraras, J I ^a   Franklin, J ^a   te Velde, A ^a   Muller, M ^a   Franzini, L ^a   Williams, A ^a   de Haes, H C ^a   Hopwood, P ^a   Cull, A ^a   Aaronson, N K ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUALITY; SPAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 10144251746     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1996.14.10.2756     Document Type: Article

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