Quality-of-life assessment in patients with bladder cancer

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 147-154

  Wright, Jonathan L ^a   Porter, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; BLADDER FUNCTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RESEARCH; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINARY DIVERSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33947280652     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0750     Document Type: Review

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