Health profiles of older women cancer survivors

Journal of Cancer Survivorship

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 179-184

  Stava, Charles J ^a   Lopez, Adriana ^b   Vassilopoulou Sellin, Rena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer survivorship; Elderly; Long term survivorship; Medicare; Understudied survivor population

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CENTER; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INSURANCE; MEDICINE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 34748884930     PISSN: 19322259     EISSN: 19322267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11764-007-0023-0     Document Type: Article

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