Living with cancer-related uncertainty: Associations with fatigue, insomnia, and affect in younger breast cancer survivors

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2489-2495

  Hall, Daniel L ^a   Mishel, Merle H ^b   Germino, Barbara B ^b  

^a University of Miami   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Cancer survivorship; Fatigue; Insomnia; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAUCASIAN; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INSOMNIA; INSOMNIA SEVERITY INDEX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MENOPAUSE; MISHEL UNCERTAINTY IN ILLNESS SCALE SURVIVOR VERSION; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PIPER FATIGUE SCALE REVISED; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT SCHEDULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RELIGION; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; UNCERTAINTY; AGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVOR; TUMOR RECURRENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; SURVIVORS; UNCERTAINTY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906313354     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-014-2243-y     Document Type: Article

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