Symptom distress, functional status and health-related quality of life before high-dose chemotherapy with stem-cell transplantation

European Journal of Cancer Care

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-80

  Larsen, Joacim ^a,b   Nordstrom G ^a,b   Bjorkstrand B ^b   Ljungman, P ^b   Gardulf, A ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Functional status; Haematological malignancies; HRQOL; Pre SCT assessment; Symptom distress

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DRUG MEGADOSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT MOBILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STRESS; ADOLESCENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0141959906     PISSN: 09615423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2354.2003.00315.x     Document Type: Article

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