Chemotherapy-related cognitive impairment: The breast cancer experience

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Myers, Jamie S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY DISORDER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ATTENTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84855485954     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/12.ONF.E31-E40     Document Type: Article

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