Epidemiology of cancer-related fatigue in the Swedish Twin Registry

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2022-2031

  Forlenza, Michael J ^a   Hall, Per ^b   Lichtenstein, Paul ^b   Evengard, Birgitta ^c   Sullivan, Patrick F ^d,e  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer, fatigue, epidemiology, prevalence, human; Risk factors, Swedish Twin Registry, Swedish Cancer Registry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER REGISTRY; COLON CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY CANCER; POPULATION RISK; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; SWEDEN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

COHORT STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 27244449371     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21373     Document Type: Article

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