Facilitating early integration of palliative care into breast cancer therapy. Promoting disease-specific guidelines

Breast Care

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 240-244

  Gaertner, Jan ^a   Wuerstlein, Rachel ^a   Ostgathe, Christoph ^a   Mallmann, Peter ^a   Harbeck, Nadia ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comprehensive cancer care; Early integration; Palliative medicine; Quality of Life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 79959886361     PISSN: 16613791     EISSN: 16613805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000329007     Document Type: Article

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