Cancer survivorship: A challenge for the European oncologists

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1216-1217

  Simonelli, C ^a   Annunziata, M A ^a   Chimienti, E ^a   Berretta, M ^a   Tirelli, U ^a  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; BREAST CANCER; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; EARLY MENOPAUSE; EDITORIAL; FEAR; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LONG TERM CARE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SECOND CANCER; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION;

ADULT; AGED; EUROPE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 46249131870     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: 15698041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdn384     Document Type: Editorial

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