What's in a Name? Word descriptors of cancer-related fatigue

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 724-730

  Hauser, Katherine ^a   Rybicki, Lisa ^a   Walsh, Declan ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; fatigue; lack of energy; symptoms; weakness

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOATING; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; SATIETY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDATION; SLEEP DISORDER; TASTE DISORDER; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957785780     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216310376557     Document Type: Article

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