Employment status and quality of life in recently diagnosed breast cancer survivors

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1411-1420

  Timperi, Allegra W ^a   Ergas, Isaac Joshua ^a   Rehkopf, David H ^b   Roh, Janise M ^a   Kwan, Marilyn L ^a   Kushi, Lawrence H ^a  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; cancer; employment; FACT B; oncology; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, CAPACITY AND PERFORMANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WELLBEING; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84878774960     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3157     Document Type: Article

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