Patient satisfaction with health-related quality of life: Implications for prognosis in prostate cancer

Clinical Genitourinary Cancer

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 91-96

  Lis, Christopher G ^a,b   Gupta, Digant ^a   Grutsch, James F ^a  

^a CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b CTCA Operations Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Ferrans and Powers Quality of Life Index; Patient satisfaction; Performance status; Prostate specifi c antigen; Survival

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER THERAPY; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVALUATION; FAMILY; GLEASON SCORE; HEALTH; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFORMATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOG RANK TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; RELIGION; SOCIAL ASPECT; THERAPY EFFECT; UNITED STATES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 58149186099     PISSN: 15587673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CGC.2008.n.014     Document Type: Article

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