Controlling fear: Jordanian women's perceptions of the diagnosis and surgical treatment of early-stage breast cancer

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 484-492

  Obeidat, Rana F ^a   Dickerson, Suzanne S ^b   Homish, Gregory G ^b   Alqaissi, Nesreen M ^c   Lally, Robin M ^b  

^a ZARQA UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Diagnosis; Early stage; Jordanian; Lived experience; Phenomenology; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; JORDAN; MASTECTOMY; MASTECTOMY, SEGMENTAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84887103866     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e31826fc9b4     Document Type: Article

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