Quality of life in head and neck cancer patients

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1175-1178

  Weymuller Jr , Ernest A ^a   Bhama, Prabbat K ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DYSPHAGIA; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LIFE SATISFACTION; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT CARE; PHARYNX CANCER; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH DISORDER; SUICIDE; VALIDITY;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 34948834662     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.7.9.1175     Document Type: Editorial

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