Adjusting to life after treatment: Distress and quality of life following treatment for breast cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1625-1631

  Costanzo, E S ^a   Lutgendorf, S K ^b,c   Mattes, M L ^b   Trehan, S ^d   Robinson, C B ^e   Tewfik, F ^f   Roman, S L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

^d AULTMAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Trinity Medical Center   (United States)

^f Iowa City Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Breast cancer; Cancer survivorship; Depression; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 37049022569     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604091     Document Type: Article

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