"Coming to grips" with chemotherapy-induced premature menopause

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 384-399

  Knobf, M Tish ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; EARLY MENOPAUSE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE, PREMATURE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 41849130966     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399330701876562     Document Type: Article

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