Psychosocial issues confronting young women with breast cancer

Breast Disease

Volumn 23, Issue , 2005, Pages 103-113

  Baucom, Donald H ^a   Porter, Laura S ^b   Kirby, Jennifer S ^a   Gremore, Tina M ^a   Keefe, Francis J ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TENDERNESS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONDYLOMA; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY MENOPAUSE; FAMILY COPING; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GONORRHEA; HERPES; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LIBIDO DISORDER; LYMPHEDEMA; MARITAL THERAPY; MASTECTOMY; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; ONSET AGE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUALITY; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINAL DRYNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BREAST TUMOR; MARRIAGE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MARRIAGE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33748122312     PISSN: 08886008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/bd-2006-23114     Document Type: Review

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