Coping and defending as risk factors for breast cancer in patients with breast disease; a prospective case-control study in Kuopio, Finland

Anticancer Research

Volumn 25, Issue 6 C, 2005, Pages 4623-4630

  Ollonen, Paula ^a   Lehtonen, Johannes ^b   Eskelinen, Matti ^b  

^a State Office in Eastern Finland   (Finland)

^b KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast disease; Coping and defending

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BREAST CANCER; BREAST DISEASE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIET; EGO; EMPATHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONTGOMERY ASBERG DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COGNITION; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 28444451822     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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