Body image and sexual problems in young women with breast cancer
Stanford University · University of California, San Francisco · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Breast cancer treatment may have severe effects on the bodies of younger women. Surgical treatment may be disfiguring, chemotherapy may cause abrupt menopause, and hormone replacement is not recommended.
A multi-ethnic population-based sample of 549 women aged 22-50 who were married or in a stable unmarried relationship were interviewed within seven months of diagnosis with in situ, local, or regional breast cancer.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 5.82
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 77
Authors
6- PFPat FobairCorresponding
Stanford University
- SLSusan L. Stewart
University of California, San Francisco
- SCSubo Chang
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Northern California Research
- CNCarol N. D’Onofrio
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Northern California Research
- PJPriscilla J. Banks
Cancer Prevention Institute of California, Northern California Research
Topics & keywords
- Breast cancer
- Feeling
- Medicine
- Ethnic group
- Population
- Menopause
- Mastectomy
- Human sexuality
- No poverty