Epidemiologic profile and quality of life of patients treated for oral cancer in Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Medicina Oral, Patologia Oral y Cirugia Bucal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  De Jesus, Rodolfo Ribeiro ^a   Meyer, Tufi Neder ^a   Leite, Isabel Cristina Gonçalves ^b   Pereira, Alessandro Antonio Costa ^a   Armond, Mônica Costa ^a  

^a Universidade Vale do Rio Verde   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF JUIZ DE FORA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cancer; Epidemiology; Oral cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY FUNCTIONING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PENSIONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SMOKING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TONGUE CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 74549201002     PISSN: 16984447     EISSN: 16986946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4317/medoral.15.e20     Document Type: Article

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