Employment and quality of survivorship among women with cancer: Domains not captured by quality of life instruments

Cancer Control

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-65

  Frazier, Linda M ^a   Miller, Virginia A ^a   Horbelt, Douglas V ^a   Delmore, James E ^a   Miller, Brigitte E ^b   Averett, Ellen P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE WICHITA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; EMPLOYMENT; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WORK; CAREGIVER; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; CAREGIVERS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS;

EID: 61449444359     PISSN: 10732748     EISSN: 15262359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107327480901600109     Document Type: Article

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