The impact of age on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and symptoms among postmenopausal women with breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 207-215

  Browall, Maria M ^a   Ahlberg, Karin M ^a,b   Persson, Lars Olof G ^a   Karlsson, Per O ^b,c   Danielson, Ella B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Section of Hematology   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; DEPRESSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAIR LOSS; HEALTH STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUTROPENIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RASH; RATING SCALE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SIDE EFFECT; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 38349151323     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860701621258     Document Type: Article

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