Quality of life and sexual functioning in cervical cancer survivors

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 7428-7436

  Frumovitz, Michael ^a   Sun, Charlotte C ^a   Schover, Leslie R ^a   Munsell, Mark F ^a   Jhingran, Anuja ^a   Wharton, J Taylor ^a   Eifel, Patricia ^a   Bevers, Therese B ^a   Levenback, Charles F ^a   Gershenson, David M ^a   Bodurka, Diane C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVOR; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 32944470119     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2004.00.3996     Document Type: Article

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