Ameliorating hot flashes/awakenings in the context of breast cancer treatments

Menopause

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 889-891

  Shaver, Joan L F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRYPTOPHAN; YOHIMBINE; ZOLPIDEM;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SLEEP DISORDERS, INTRINSIC;

EID: 77957691246     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e3181ef18a7     Document Type: Editorial

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