Distress in older patients with cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 27, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 4346-4351

  Hurria, Arti ^a   Li, Daneng ^a   Hansen, Kurt ^a   Patil, Sujata ^a   Gupta, Ravi ^a   Nelson, Christian ^a   Lichtman, Stuart M ^a   Tew, William P ^a   Hamlin, Paul ^a   Zuckerman, Enid ^a   Gardes, Jonathan ^a   Limaye, Sewanti ^a   Lachs, Mark ^a   Kelly, Eva ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COMORBIDITY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOLID TUMOR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VISUAL ACUITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; HEALTH STATUS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 70349315340     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.19.9463     Document Type: Article

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