Cooling off hot flashes: Uncoupling of the circadian pattern of core body temperature and hot flash frequency in breast cancer survivors

Menopause

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 369-371

  Elkind Hirsch, Karen ^a  

^a Woman's Health Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORE TEMPERATURE; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; BREAST TUMOR; COMORBIDITY; MIDDLE AGED; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTMENOPAUSE; THERMOREGULATION;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE;

EID: 4644304351     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.GME.0000132624.84597.9F     Document Type: Editorial

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