The cancer worry scale: Detecting fear of recurrence in breast cancer survivors

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Custers, José A E ^a   Van Den Berg, Sanne W ^a   Van Laarhoven, Hanneke W M ^a,b   Bleiker, Eveline M A ^c   Gielissen, Marieke F M ^a   Prins, Judith B ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer worry scale; Fear of cancer recurrence; Oncology; Validation

Indexed keywords

TRASTUZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ACCEPTANCE SCALE; CANCER EMPOWERMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER WORRY SCALE; CHECKLIST; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NURSE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; VALIDITY; VERY ELDERLY; ANXIETY; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; DYSTHYMIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84890567597     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0b013e3182813a17     Document Type: Article

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