Correlation between hemoglobin and fatigue in women undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy without erythropoietin-stimulating-agent support

Clinical Breast Cancer

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 522-526

  Blair, Sarah ^a   Bardwell, Wayne ^a,b   Podbelewicz Schuller, Yaffa ^c   Mortimer, Joanne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Physiologic reserve; Quality of life; Role limitations

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TAMOXIFEN; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT T TEST; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BLOOD; BREAST TUMOR; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FATIGUE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; ERYTHROPOIETIN, RECOMBINANT; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 60549089451     PISSN: 15268209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3816/CBC.2008.n.064     Document Type: Article

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