Does felt age reflect health-related quality of life in cancer patients?

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 726-738

  Boehmer, Sonja ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Felt age; Oncology; Quality of life; Subjective age identify; Subjective aging; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EVALUATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPETITE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FATIGUE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33747408360     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1011     Document Type: Article

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