Cancer-related fatigue: Suffering a different fatigue

Cancer Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 87-95

  Holley, Sandra ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Distress; Fatigue

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RATING SCALE; RELIGION; SELF CARE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SYMPTOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0034094389     PISSN: 10654704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-5394.2000.82007.x     Document Type: Article

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