Gustatory and olfactory function in breast cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 707-713

  Steinbach, Silke ^a   Hundt, Walter ^b   Zahnert, Thomas ^a   Berktold, Sabina ^c   Böhner, Christina ^c   Gottschalk, Nina ^c   Hamann, Moritz ^c   Kriner, Monika ^d   Heinrich, Petra ^d   Schmalfeldt, Barbara ^c   Harbeck, Nadia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Smell; Taste; Tumor size Receptor status

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BITTER TASTE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASTECTOMY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMELLING AND TASTE; SNIFFING; SWEETNESS; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TUMOR VOLUME; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMPLICATION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TASTE DISORDERS;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TASTE DISORDERS;

EID: 77953622312     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-009-0672-9     Document Type: Article

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