Course of fatigue between two cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 467-477

  De Jong, Nynke ^a   Kester, Arnold D M ^a   Schouten, Harry C ^b   Abu Saad, Huda Huijer ^a,c   Courtens, Annemie M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Breast cancer; Fatigue

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DISEASE COURSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NETHERLANDS; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33845465717     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002820-200611000-00007     Document Type: Article

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