Breast cancer survivors' recollection of their illness and therapy seven years after enrolment into a randomised controlled clinical trial

BMC Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Lindberg, Patricia ^a   Koller, Michael ^b   Steinger, Brunhilde ^a   Lorenz, Wilfried ^a   Wyatt, Jeremy C ^c   Inwald, Elisabeth C ^b   Klinkhammer Schalke, Monika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Complex intervention; Patient physician agreement; Qualitative analysis; Quality of life; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LIFE PRIORITY; LIFESTYLE AND RELATED PHENOMENA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIAL SUPPORT; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG-RELATED SIDE EFFECTS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84938210021     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12885-015-1573-6     Document Type: Article

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