Improving the quality and efficiency of follow-up after curative treatment for breast cancer - Rationale and study design of the MaCare trial

BMC Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Kimman, Merel L ^a,b   Voogd, Adri C ^b   Dirksen, Carmen D ^c   Falger, Paul ^c   Hupperets, Pierre ^c   Keymeulen, Kristien ^c   Hebly, Marlene ^c   Dehing, Cary ^a   Lambin, Philippe ^a,b,c   Boersma, Liesbeth J ^a,b,c  

^a MAASTRO CLINIC   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEPHONE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MAMMOGRAPHY; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NETHERLANDS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TELEPHONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846673037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-7-1     Document Type: Article

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