Impact of yoga on functional outcomes in breast cancer survivors with aromatase inhibitor-associated arthralgias

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 313-320

  Galantino, Mary Lou ^a,b   Desai, Krupali ^b   Greene, Laurie ^a   Demichele, Angela ^b   Stricker, Carrie Tompkins ^b   Mao, Jun James ^b  

^a RICHARD STOCKTON COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

aromatase inhibitor; arthralgia; breast cancer; function; quality of life; yoga

Indexed keywords

ANASTROZOLE; EXEMESTANE; LETROZOLE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BREAST CANCER; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY BREAST; FUNCTIONAL REACH; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN SEVERITY SUBSCALE; PATIENT SPECIFIC FUNCTIONAL SCALE; PILOT STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SAFETY; SELF REPORT; SIT AND REACH; YOGA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; ARTHRALGIA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOGA;

EID: 84869457106     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: 1552695X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735411413270     Document Type: Article

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