Functional limitations in elderly female cancer survivors

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 98, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 521-529

  Sweeney, Carol ^a   Schmitz, Kathryn H ^c   Lazovich, DeAnn ^b   Virnig, Beth A ^b   Wallace, Robert B ^d   Folsom, Aaron R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC HORMONE AGONISTS AND ANTAGONISTS;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CALCULATION; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME; CANCER REGISTRY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; WALKING; WORK;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEER PROGRAM; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; WALKING; WORK;

EID: 33646447387     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djj130     Document Type: Article

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