Suicide in breast cancer patients: An individual-centered approach provides insight beyond epidemiology

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1037-1044

  Güth, Uwe ^a   Myrick, Mary Elizabeth ^a   Reisch, Thomas ^b   Bosshard, Georg ^c   Schmid, Seraina Margaretha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Clinical Ethicist   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; CAPECITABINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOCETAXEL; EPIRUBICIN; NAVELBINE; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; AUTOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PHYSICIAN ASSISTED SUICIDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SKIN METASTASIS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052893487     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2011.602112     Document Type: Article

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