Patterns of pain and distress during high-dose-rate intracavity brachytherapy for cervical cancer

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 108-114

  Kwekkboom, Kristine L ^a,b   Dendaas, Nancy R ^a   Straub, Margaret ^a   Bradley, Kristin A ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; MIDAZOLAM; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; HOSPITALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 68249161329     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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