Are women with breast cancer receiving sufficient education and information about their treatment?

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 62-63

  Wengström, Yvonne ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 38849203071     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc1020     Document Type: Article

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