Health - Related quality of life of Kuwaiti women with breast cancer: A comparative study using the EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire

BMC Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Alawadi, Shafika A ^a   Ohaeri, Jude U ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b Psychological Medicine Hospital Kuwait   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EORTC QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; KUWAIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SLEEP DISORDER; TREATMENT DURATION; BREAST TUMOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 68249160770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-9-222     Document Type: Article

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