Changes in quality of life of head-and-neck cancer patients following postoperative radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 571-578

  Fang, Fu Min ^a   Chien, Chin Yen ^a   Kuo, Shun Ching ^a   Chiu, Herng Chia ^b   Wang, Chong Jong ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COGNITION; CONSTIPATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EATING DISORDER; EMOTION; FATIGUE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INSOMNIA; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH DISORDER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CANCER; TONSIL CANCER; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 4844229269     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860410018430     Document Type: Article

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