Quality of life in breast cancer patients - A quantile regression analysis

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 487-490

  Pourhoseingholi, Mohamad Amin ^a   Safaee, Azadeh ^a   Moghimi Dehkordi, Bijan ^a   Zeighami, Bahram ^b   Faghihzadeh, Soghrat ^c   Tabatabaee, Hamid Reza ^a   Pourhoseingholi, Asma ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iranian breast cancer; Linear regression; QLQ C30; Quality of life; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650915082     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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