Symptoms and Quality of Life in Cancer Patients With Brain Metastases Following Palliative Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1125-1131

  Wong, Jennifer ^a   Hird, Amanda ^a   Zhang, Liying ^a   Tsao, May ^a   Sinclair, Emily ^a   Barnes, Elizabeth ^a   Danjoux, Cyril ^a   Chow, Edward ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain metastases; Quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER PATIENTS; NEUROLOGICAL SYMPTOMS; PALLIATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PERFORMANCE STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPITZER; WHOLE BRAIN RADIOTHERAPY;

BRAIN; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PATHOLOGY;

DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALERTNESS; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN RADIATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PARESTHESIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SEIZURE; SELF CONCEPT; SMELLING DISORDER; SPEECH DISORDER; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; FATIGUE; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SKULL IRRADIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CONFUSION; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 70449723708     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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