Breast Cancer Treatment Decision Making: Does The Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Transcend Culture?

Research in the Sociology of Health Care

Volumn 23, Issue , 2005, Pages 35-53

  Wescott, Pamela H ^a   Reifler, Ellen J ^a   Sepucha, Karen ^a   Park, Elyse R ^a  

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EID: 33645842781     PISSN: 02754959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0275-4959(05)23003-X     Document Type: Review

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