Morbidity associated with "self-rated health" in epithelial ovarian cancer survivors

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liavaag, Astrid Helene ^a,b   Dørum, Anne ^b,c   Fosså, Sophie D ^b,c   Tropé, Claes ^b,c   Dahl, Alv A ^b,c  

^a Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; GEMCITABINE; PACLITAXEL; TAMOXIFEN;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; COMORBIDITY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; INTIMACY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSE; MORBIDITY; NAUSEA; NORWAY; OVARY CANCER; PAIN; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF EVALUATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; EPITHELIUM CELL; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVOR;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NORWAY; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CONCEPT; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61749085572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-2     Document Type: Article

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