Patterns of symptom distress in older women after surgical treatment for breast cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 327-335

  Kenefick, Amy Laufer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; EATING DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; COST OF ILLNESS; EATING DISORDERS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33646363031     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/06.ONF.327-335     Document Type: Article

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