Quality of life of breast cancer patients in the course of adjuvant radiotherapy

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 299-304

  Budischewski, K ^a,c   Fischbeck, S ^b   Mose, St ^c,d  

^a SRH UNIVERSITY HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d SCHWARZWALD BAAR KLINIKUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health related quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT DURATION;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 41049088831     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-007-0321-0     Document Type: Article

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