Older women, breast cancer, and social support.
Introduction: One in ten women over the age of 65 will develop breast cancer. Despite this high incidence of breast cancer among older women, social support for them is often inadequate. This paper describes a qualitative study of the impact of a breast cancer diagnosis on older women from racially/...
| Publicado en: | Supportive Care in Cancer Vol. 18; no. 12; pp. 1521 - 1531 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2010
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