Assessment of quality of life in patients with rectal cancer treated by preoperative radiotherapy: A longitudinal prospective study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1129-1135

  Allal, Abdelkarim S ^a   Gervaz, Pascal ^a   Gertsch, Philippe ^b   Bernier, Jacques ^b   Roth, Arnaud D ^a   Morel, Philippe ^a   Bieri, Sabine ^c  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b Regional Hospital San Giovanni   (Switzerland)

^c Hopital de Sion   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Quality of life; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SURGERY; TUMORS;

COLOSTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE (QOL); RECTAL CANCER; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISTURBANCES;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF CONCEPT; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 14844288079     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.07.726     Document Type: Article

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