Arm morbidity and disability after breast cancer: New directions for care

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 65-71

  Thomas MacLean, Roanne L ^a   Hack, Thomas ^b   Kwan, Winkle ^c   Towers, Anna ^d   Miedema, Baukje ^e   Tilley, Andrea ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANADA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SENTINEL LYMPH NODE BIOPSY;

EID: 38849116554     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/08.ONF.65-71     Document Type: Article

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