Workplace support after breast cancer treatment: Recognition of vulnerability

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 1770-1776

  Tiedtke, Corine ^a   Dierckx De Casterlé, Bernadette ^a   Donceel, Peter ^a   De Rijk, Angelique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Return to work; Support; Vulnerability; Work ability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BREAST TUMOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETURN TO WORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RETURN TO WORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84937791877     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2014.982830     Document Type: Article

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