Quality and quantity of life with pancreatic cancer

Digestion

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 116-117

  Jacobson, Judith S ^a  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 33846655363     PISSN: 00122823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000098176     Document Type: Editorial

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