Purpose/Objectives: To describe children's worries when their mothers are newly diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer. Design: Descriptive, qualitative study. Setting: Private family homes. Sample: Case intensive interviews with 16 children who ranged in age from 11-18 years at the time that...

Concerns about understanding and promoting coping with cancer permeate the research and clinical literature in oncology nursing, psychology, social work, medicine, and other healthcare disciplines. This interest in coping also is apparent in the lay literature in first-person accounts of the cancer...

Purpose/Objectives: To identify the personal issues and concerns of African American women who are breast cancer survivors. Design: Exploratory. Setting: Southeastern United States; urban community. Sample : A total of 24 women were recruited from churches and the community; 16 women participated...