Cancer Pain: An Age-Based Analysis

Pain Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1525-1536

  Green, Carmen R ^a,b   Hart Johnson, Tamera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Age Based Differences and Disparities; Cancer; Health Related Quality of Life; Pain; Physician Variability; Quality of Care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; COGNITION; COLORECTAL CANCER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; WELLBEING;

EID: 77957239587     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2010.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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