Prevalence and predictors of symptoms in the terminal stage of lung cancer: A community study

Chest

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 389-394

  Skaug, Knut ^a   Eide, Geir E ^b,c   Gulsvik, Amund ^c  

^a HAUGESUND HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Critical care; Epidemiology, pulmonary; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; COMMUNITY CARE; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NAUSEA; PAIN; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 33847093053     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.06-1233     Document Type: Article

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