Surviving cancer: A comparison of 5-year disease-free breast cancer survivors with healthy women

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-317

  Helgeson, Vicki S ^a   Tomich, Patricia L ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THINKING; WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERENCE VALUES; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SICK ROLE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 17344369626     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.848     Document Type: Article

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