Quality of life among young women with breast cancer: Study from a tertiary cancer institute in south India

Indian Journal of Cancer

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-147

  Dubashi, B ^a   Vidhubala, E ^a   Cyriac, S ^a   Sagar, T ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE WIA   (India)

Author keywords

Breast conservation; Psycho oncology; Quality of life; Young breast cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AMENORRHEA; ARM; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CONSERVATION SURGERY; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER SURGERY; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OCCUPATION; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952625642     PISSN: 0019509X     EISSN: 19984774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-509X.63005     Document Type: Article

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