Comparison of the quality of life of early and advanced stage ovarian cancer survivors

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 353-359

  Mirabeau Beale, Kristina L ^a   Kornblith, Alice B ^b   Penson, Richard T ^c   Lee, Hang ^a,c   Goodman, Annekathryn ^c   Campos, Susana M ^b   Duska, Linda ^d   Pereira, Lauren ^b   Bryan, Jessica ^b   Matulonis, Ursula A ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear of recurrence; Ovarian cancer; Quality of life; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; PACLITAXEL; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EARLY CANCER; FATIGUE; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; OVARY CANCER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIGION; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 67549109082     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2009.05.009     Document Type: Article

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