Activities of daily living in women with advanced breast cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 841-846

  DeSanto Madeya, Susan ^a   Bauer Wu, Susan ^b   Gross, Abigail ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; COST OF ILLNESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 38549150834     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/07.ONF.841-846     Document Type: Article

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