Which dimensions of health-related quality of life are altered in patients attending the different gynecologic oncology health care settings?

Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2500-2507

  Capelli, Giovanni ^a   De Vincenzo, Rosa I ^b   Addamo, Alice ^b   Bartolozzi, Francesco ^b   Braggio, Nicola ^c   Scambia, Giovanni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c Astra Zeneca Medical Division   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dimensions of health and disease; Gynecologic oncology; HRQOL, SF 36 questionnaire; Use of population standards

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; OVARY CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT CANCER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037114772     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.10993     Document Type: Article

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