Associations between quality of life, fatigue, and cytokine levels in patients aged 50+ with acute myeloid leukemia

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 539-546

  Panju, Abbas H ^a   Danesh, Ali ^a   Minden, Mark D ^b   Kelvin, David J ^a   Alibhai, Shabbir M H ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute myeloid leukemia; Correlation; Cytokines; Fatigue; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; CYTARABINE; CYTOKINE; DAUNORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MITOXANTRONE; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYTOKINES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 64449084335     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-008-0512-3     Document Type: Article

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