Quality of life in breast cancer patients: Measurement issues in cancer clinical trials

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-65

  Efficace, Fabio ^a   Bottomley, Andrew ^a   Collins, Gary S ^a  

^a EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical trials; Instrument selection; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036078868     PISSN: 14737167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737167.2.1.57     Document Type: Review

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