The diagnosis of breast cancer: Transition from health to illness

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1121-1127

  Boehmke, Marcia M ^a   Dickerson, Suzanne S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; SELF CONCEPT; SICK ROLE;

EID: 34249044521     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/06.ONF.1121-1127     Document Type: Article

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