Descriptive analysis of clinical factors affecting terminally ill cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 261-269

  Jimenez Gordo A M ^a   Feliu, J ^b   Martinez B ^b   De Castro, J ^b   Rodriguez Salas N ^c   Sastre, N ^b   Vilches, Y ^b   Espinosa, E ^b   Rodriguez Aizcorbe J R ^d   Gonzalez Baron M ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN ALCORCÓN   (Spain)

^d Geriatric Department   (Spain)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Analysis; Laboratory parameters; Survival; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ENZYME; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEMOGLOBIN; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; POTASSIUM; PROTEIN; SODIUM; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AGITATION; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANEMIA; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASTHENIA; BLEEDING; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLESTASIS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONSTIPATION; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOLYSIS; DEPRESSION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISORIENTATION; DIZZINESS; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; ENZYME BLOOD LEVEL; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL CONDITION; GROUPS BY AGE; HICCUP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NAUSEA; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URINE INCONTINENCE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 59449102795     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-008-0460-y     Document Type: Article

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