Symptom clusters in cancer patients with bone metastases

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1035-1043

  Chow, Edward ^a,b   Fan, Grace ^a   Hadi, Stephanie ^a   Filipczak, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bone metastases; Bone pain; Palliative radiotherapy; Symptom cluster

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DROWSINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 34548297776     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0241-z     Document Type: Article

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