Choices in cancer treatment: A qualitative study of the older women's (>70 years) perspective

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 410-416

  Husain, Lopa Sadia ^a   Collins, Karen ^a   Reed, Malcolm ^a   Wyld, Lynda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast; Cancer; Older; Treatment; Women

Indexed keywords

TAMOXIFEN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, HORMONAL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; COMORBIDITY; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; SICK ROLE; TAMOXIFEN;

EID: 41949102081     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1242     Document Type: Article

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