Seminars in Oncology
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 814-816 , December 2003

Empowering women with breast cancer: one survivor’s story

  • Electra D Paskett

      Affiliations

    • Ohio State Univesity Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Electra D. Paskett, PhD, Marion N. Rowley Professor of Cancer Research, Ohio State University Medical Center, A356 Starling-Loving Hall, 320 W 10th St, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

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  2. Paskett ED, Tatum CM, D’Agostino R, et al.  Community-based interventions to improve breast and cervical cancer screening (Results of the Forsyth County Cancer Screening (FoCaS) project). Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 1999;8:453–459
  3. Paskett ED, Tatum C, Rushing J, et al.  The Robeson County Outreach, Screening and Education Project (Design and baseline results). 2002; Proceedings of the 8th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer, Washington, DC, February 2002, pp 22–23
  4. Paskett ED, Stark N. Lymphedema knowledge, treatment and impact among breast cancer survivors. Breast J. 2000;6:373–378
  5. Paskett ED, Stark NN, Winer E, et al: Health-related quality of life (HRQL) in long-term breast cancer survivors: A CALGB study. Cancer (in press)
  6. Dow KH, Ferrell BR, Leigh S, et al.  An evaluation of the quality of life among long-term survivors of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 1996;39:261–273
  7. Baum M, Budzar AU, Cuzick J, et al.  Anastrozole alone or in combination with tamoxifen versus tamoxifen alone for adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with early breast cancer (First results of the ATAC randomised trial). Lancet. 2002;359:2131–2139

PII: S0093-7754(03)00477-9

doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2003.08.027

Seminars in Oncology
Volume 30, Issue 6 , Pages 814-816 , December 2003

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