Focusing on physical function limitations in elderly women surviving cancer: Any opportunity for improvement? Commentary

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 598-599

  Dellapasqua, Silvia ^a   Colleoni, Marco ^a   Goldhirsch, Aron ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

NOVEL ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN; RECOMBINANT GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

AGED; AGING; ANEMIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUTROPENIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WALKING;

EID: 33750548424     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: 17434262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0633     Document Type: Short Survey

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