Quality of life and functional status in patients with cancer of the oral cavity and oropharynx: Pretreatment values of a prospective study

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 264, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 651-657

  Borggreven, Pepijn A ^a   Verdonck De Leeuw, Irma M ^a   Muller, Martin J ^b   Heiligers, Milou L C H ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a   Aaronson, Neil K ^b   Leemans, C René ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Functional status; Head and neck cancer; Microvascular reconstruction; Quality of life; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34247874504     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00405-007-0249-5     Document Type: Article

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