Quality of life over 5 years after a breast cancer diagnosis among low-income women: Effects of race/ethnicity and patient-physician communication

Cancer

Volumn 121, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 916-926

  Maly, Rose C ^a   Liu, Yihang ^a   Liang, Li Jung ^b   Ganz, Patricia A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Low income population; Minority health; Patient physician communication; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CAUCASIAN; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPOWERMENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LADDER OF LIFE SCALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SHORT FORM 36 MENTAL COMPONENT SUMMARY SCALE; SHORT FORM 36 PHYSICAL COMPONENT SUMMARY SCALE; TREATMENT DURATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CALIFORNIA; ECONOMICS; ETHNOLOGY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POVERTY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924140108     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.29150     Document Type: Article

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