Health-related quality of life in women with breast cancer in Korea: Do sociodemographic characteristics and time since diagnosis make a difference?

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Chae, Young Ran ^a   Seo, Kumin ^b  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; OUTPATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH KOREA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77957675771     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/10.ONF.E295-E303     Document Type: Article

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