Tumor-related fatigue - An underestimated problem

Onkologie

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 423-424

  Rüffer, Jens Ulrich ^a  

^a Deutsche Fatigue Gesellschaft eV   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MEGESTROL ACETATE; METHYLPHENIDATE; PREDNISONE;

ANEMIA; ANXIETY; CACHEXIA; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METABOLIC DISORDER; NAUSEA; PAIN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUBLICATION; SELF REPORT; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENERGY METABOLISM; FATIGUE; GERMANY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOCIETIES, SCIENTIFIC;

EID: 10744220404     PISSN: 0378584X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000074730     Document Type: Editorial

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