Quality of life assessment through the EORTC questionnaires of locally advanced rectal cancer patients treated with preoperative chemo-radiotherapy

Clinical and Translational Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 423-429

  Arraras Urdaniz, Juan Ignacio ^a,b   Arias de la Vega, Fernando ^a   Vera García, Ruth ^a   Burgaleta, Ana Manterola ^a   Aguillo, Maite Martínez ^a   Iturre, Elena Villafranca ^a   Pascual, Esteban Salgado ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Quality of life; Questionnaire; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; TEGAFUR; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EMOTIONALITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BODY IMAGE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EMOTION; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; MICTURITION DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BODY IMAGE; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEGAFUR; URINATION DISORDERS;

EID: 33749052104     PISSN: 1699048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-006-0196-4     Document Type: Article

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