Diminished quality of life in patients with cancer correlates with tryptophan degradation

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 477-485

  Schroecksnadel, Katharina ^a   Fiegl, Michael ^b   Prassl, Karin ^b   Winkler, Christiana ^a   Denz, Hubert A ^b   Fuchs, Dietmar ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Hospital Natters/Innsbruck   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fatigue; Immune activation; Neopterin; Quality of life; Tryptophan degradation

Indexed keywords

KYNURENINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VENOUS BLOOD;

AGED; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; KYNURENINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEOPTERIN; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 34248993685     PISSN: 01715216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00432-007-0191-3     Document Type: Article

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