Stressors and coping strategies among female cancer survivors after treatments

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-111

  Lauver, Diane Ruth ^a   Connolly Nelson, Kira ^a   Vang, Pa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Coping strategy; Stressors; Survivor

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIGION; STRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 34147100761     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000265003.56817.2c     Document Type: Article

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