A qualitative study of factors affecting chemotherapy use in older women with breast cancer: Barriers, promoters, and implications for intervention

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1065-1076

  Kreling, Barbara ^a   Figueiredo, Melissa I ^a   Sheppard, Vanessa L ^a   Mandelblatt, Jeanne S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant chemotherapy; Aging; Breast cancer; Doctor patient communication; Oncology; Treatment decision making

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNICITY; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RACE; RELIGION; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 33845979085     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1042     Document Type: Article

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