The measurement of response shift in patients with advanced prostate cancer and their partners

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Rees, Jonathan ^a   Clarke, Michael G ^a   Waldron, Dympna ^b   O'Boyle, Ciaran ^c   Ewings, Paul ^a   MacDonagh, Ruaraidh P ^a  

^a TAUNTON AND SOMERSET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

^c ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MORBIDITY; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SEXUALITY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPOUSE; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SPOUSES;

EID: 16344390178     PISSN: 14777525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-21     Document Type: Article

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