Prostate cancer quality of life: Beyond initial treatment - and the Patient

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 4155-4156

  Talcott, James A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER THERAPY; CASTRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT GROUP; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; DISEASE COURSE; MALE; NOTE; PROSTATE TUMOR; RECURRENT DISEASE;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34948880707     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2007.12.1996     Document Type: Editorial

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