Attribution of functional limitation to cancer decreases in the year following breast cancer diagnosis in older patients

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-69

  Sehl, Mary E ^a   Satariano, William A ^b   Ragland, David R ^b   Reuben, David B ^a   Naeim, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Comorbidity; Functional limitation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTHRITIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SELF REPORT;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 67349112846     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2008.10.005     Document Type: Review

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