The role of patient-provider communication for black women making decisions about breast cancer treatment

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1309-1316

  Sheppard, Vanessa B ^a   Adams, Inez F ^b   Lamdan, Ruth ^c   Taylor, Kathryn L ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Black; breast cancer; treatment decisions

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEGRO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RELIGION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COMMUNICATION; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DECISION MAKING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SPIRITUALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81755177806     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1852     Document Type: Article

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