Quality of life assessment in women with breast cancer: Benefits, acceptability and utilization

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Perry, Sheila ^a   Kowalski, Theresa L ^a   Chang, Chih Hung ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANXIETY DISORDER; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BLADDER DYSFUNCTION; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPOWERMENT; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; LIFE SATISFACTION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDLINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NAUSEA; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VAGINA DISEASE; BREAST TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 34249997368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-5-24     Document Type: Review

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