The role of hair loss in cancer identity

Cancer Nursing

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2017, Pages E9-E16

  Trusson, Diane ^a   Pilnick, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alopecia; Breast cancer; DCIS; Hair loss; Identity; Stereotypes; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SURGERY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EARLY CANCER; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LUMPECTOMY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHYSICAL APPEARANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONCEPT; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; STEREOTYPY; STIGMA; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALOPECIA; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, INTRADUCTAL, NONINFILTRATING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84963690585     PISSN: 0162220X     EISSN: 15389804     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000000373     Document Type: Article

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