Mechanisms used to face difficulties encountered following surgical treatment for breast cancer

African Journal of Psychiatry (South Africa)

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-76

  Pereira de Godoy, José Maria ^a,b   da Silva, Silvia Helena ^a   de Fátima Guerreiro Godoy, Maria ^a  

^a FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DE SÃO JOSÉ DO RIO PRETO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL FACTOR; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROBLEM SOLVING; RELIGION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; AGED; BRAZIL; BREAST TUMOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FOLLOW UP; LETTER; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADULT; AGED; BRAZIL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SICK ROLE;

EID: 67649755923     PISSN: 19948220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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