The nutritional status of older men with advanced prostate cancer and factors affecting it

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 716-719

  Toliusiene, Jolanta ^a   Lesauskaite, Vita ^a  

^a KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Elderly; Nutrition; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AGING; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GERIATRIC CARE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 5444255431     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-004-0635-0     Document Type: Article

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