Symptoms in the lives of terminal cancer patients: Which is the most important?

Oncology

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 69-76

  Kwon, Yong Chol ^a,b   Yun, Young Ho ^a,c   Lee, Ki Heon ^a,b   Son, Ki Young ^a,b   Park, Sang Min ^a   Chang, Yoon Jung ^a   Wang, Xin Shelley ^c   Mendoza, Tito R ^c   Cleeland, Charles S ^c  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory; Terminal cancer patients; Terminal cancer, fatigue and pain; Terminal cancer, symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINAL DISEASE; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 34247103644     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000100450     Document Type: Article

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