Symptom concerns of women with ovarian cancer

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 528-538

  Ferrell, Betty ^a   Smith, Stephany ^a   Cullinane, Carey ^a   Melancon, Cindy ^b  

^a CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Conversations: Intl Newsletter T ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ovarian cancer; Quality of life; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER THERAPY; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; E-MAIL; ETHNOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEVER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY CARCINOMA; PANIC; PATIENT EDUCATION; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTAL MAIL; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RASH; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM; TOOTH DISEASE; URINARY FREQUENCY; VAGINA BLEEDING;

EID: 0037716745     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0885-3924(03)00148-9     Document Type: Article

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