Personal accounts of exercise and quality of life from the perspective of breast cancer survivors

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1473-1481

  Milne, Helen M ^a   Guilfoyle, Andrew ^b   Gordon, Sandy ^a   Wallman, Karen E ^a   Courneya, Kerry S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer survivors; Exercise; Psychological factors; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXERCISE; FATIGUE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SPIRITUAL HEALING;

AGED; ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATA COLLECTION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURVIVORS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 35248825417     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-007-9251-z     Document Type: Article

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