Posttreatment concerns of older women with early-stage breast cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 83-88

  Wochna Loerzel, Victoria ^a   Aroian, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Aging; Breast cancer; Coping

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BRONCHITIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMON COLD; CONFUSION; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DYSTHYMIA; ELDERLY CARE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; HEADACHE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVIEW; IRRITABILITY; IRRITABLE COLON; LYMPHEDEMA; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; NAUSEA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PAIN; POST TREATMENT SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SLEEP DISORDER; THORAX PAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCERTAINTY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT GAIN;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84857916415     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31821a3843     Document Type: Article

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