A retrospective quality of life analysis using the lung cancer symptom scale in patients treated with palliative radiotherapy for advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 117-122

  Lutz, Stephen T ^a   Huang, David T ^a   Ferguson, Catherine L ^a   Kavanagh, Brian D ^a   Tercilla, Oscar F ^a   Lu, Jiandong ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonsmall cell lung cancer; Quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGITIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031054693     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(96)00406-3     Document Type: Article

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