Measuring health-related quality of life in patients with hepatobiliary cancers: The functional assessment of Cancer Therapy-Hepatobiliary Questionnaire

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2229-2239

  Heffernan, Nancy ^a   Cella, David ^a   Webster, Kimberly ^a   Odom, Linda ^a   Martone, Mary ^a   Passik, Steven ^a   Bookbinder, Marilyn ^a   Fong, Yuman ^a   Jarnagin, William ^a   Blumgart, Leslie ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEPATOBILIARY SYSTEM CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ONCOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0036569462     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2002.07.093     Document Type: Article

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