Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) scale for long-term cancer survivors in a sample of breast cancer survivors

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Avis, Nancy E ^a   Ip, Edward ^a   Foley, Kristie Long ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE IN ADULT CANCER SURVIVORS; SURVIVAL TIME; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY;

ADULT; BOSTON; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33845673299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-92     Document Type: Article

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