Living with breast cancer: Its effect on the life situation and the close relationship of women in Brazil

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 471-478

  Muniz Da Costa Vargens, Octavio ^a,c   Berterö, Carina M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Awareness of mortality; Breast cancer; Interpretive phenomenology; Lived experience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIO RECORDING; BODY IMAGE; BRAZIL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PROFESSION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; BODY IMAGE; BRAZIL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; SELF CONCEPT; SELF DISCLOSURE; SEXUALITY;

EID: 36349022648     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.NCC.0000300157.83144.fb     Document Type: Article

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