The Meaning of Breast Cancer Risk for African American Women

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 239-247

  Phillips, Janice ^a   Cohen, Marlene Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; Breast cancer; Highrisk; Phenomenology; Young women

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052264686     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2011.01399.x     Document Type: Article

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