Personality and fatigue in patients with benign or malignant breast disease

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1067-1073

  Michielsen, Helen J ^a   Van Der Steeg, Alida F W ^b   Roukema, Jan A ^b   De Vries, Jolanda ^a,b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CPRLab   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast neoplasm; Fatigue; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EXTRAVERSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROSIS; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548304032     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0222-2     Document Type: Article

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