Health-related quality of life among patients with adenocarcinoma of the gastro-oesophageal junction treated by gastrectomy or oesophagectomy

British Journal of Surgery

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-84

  Barbour, A P ^a   Lagergren, P ^a,b   Hughes, R ^a   Alderson, D ^a   Barham, C P ^a   Blazeby, J M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMORBIDITY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MALE; MORTALITY; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADENOCARCINOMA; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH TUMOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; ESOPHAGECTOMY; ESOPHAGOGASTRIC JUNCTION; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549092790     PISSN: 00071323     EISSN: 13652168     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.5912     Document Type: Article

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