What determines the health-related quality of life among regional and rural breast cancer survivors?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 534-539

  DiSipio, Tracey ^a   Hayes, Sandi ^a   Newman, Beth ^a   Janda, Monika ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Quality of life; Rural

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVOR;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUEENSLAND; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVORS;

EID: 74949109800     PISSN: 13260200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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