Incidence and risk factors of breast cancer lymphoedema

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1450-1459

  Park, Jin Hee ^a   Lee, Won Hee ^b   Chung, Hae Soo ^c  

^a Ajou University   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Incidence; Lymphoedema; Nurses; Nursing; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KOREA; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; KOREA; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHEDEMA; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NURSE'S ROLE; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE;

EID: 43749118715     PISSN: 09621067     EISSN: 13652702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2007.02187.x     Document Type: Article

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