Clinical relevance of fatigue levels in cancer patients at a Veterans Administration Medical Center

Cancer

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 2481-2489

  Hwang, Shirley S ^a,b   Chang, Victor T ^a,c   Cogswell, Janet ^a   Kasimis, Basil S ^a,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Depression; Fatigue; Functional interference; Quality of life; Survival; Symptom; Veterans

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATIGUE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036569796     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10507     Document Type: Article

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