Frequency, severity, clinical course, and correlates of fatigue in 372 patients during 5 weeks of radiotherapy for cancer

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1772-1778

  Hickok, Jane T ^a   Roscoe, Joseph A ^a   Morrow, Gary R ^a   Mustian, Karen ^a   Okunieff, Paul ^a   Bole, Christopher W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Cancer; Fatigue; Radiotherapy; Symptoms; Treatment side effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL CARCINOMA; GENDER; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RADIATION DOSE; STUDENT T TEST; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FATIGUE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 26444584322     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21364     Document Type: Article

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