Post-traumatic growth and psychosocial adjustment of daughters of breast cancer survivors

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 543-551

  Mosher, Catherine E ^a   Danoff Burg, Sharon ^a   Brunker, Beverly ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Western Reserve Care System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR FAMILY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33746233571     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/06.ONF.543-551     Document Type: Review

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