Evaluating patients with chronic pain after breast cancer surgery: The search for relief

JAMA

Volumn 302, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 2034-2035

  Loftus, Loretta S ^a   Laronga, Christine ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; EDITORIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MASTECTOMY; PARESTHESIA; PHANTOM PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL STATUS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; PAIN; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARESTHESIA; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 70449893816     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.1642     Document Type: Editorial

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