Dance and movement program improves quality-of-life measures in breast cancer survivors

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 301-309

  Sandel, Susan L ^a   Judge, James O ^b   Landry, Nora ^a   Faria, Lynn ^a   Ouellette, Robbie ^c   Majczak, Marta ^b  

^a MidState Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HEBREW HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer survivor; Dance; Movement; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DANCING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MOVEMENT THERAPY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SHOULDER;

EID: 23244431973     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200507000-00011     Document Type: Article

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