Prognostic factors in patients with advanced cancer: Use of the patient-generated subjective global assessment in survival prediction

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 4376-4383

  Martin, Lisa ^a   Watanabe, Sharon ^a   Fainsinger, Robin ^a   Lau, Francis ^a   Ghosh, Sunita ^a   Quan, Hue ^a   Atkins, Marlis ^a   Fassbender, Konrad ^a   Downing, G Michael ^a   Baracos, Vickie ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIETARY INTAKE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DYSPHAGIA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH ULCER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SMELLING DISORDER; TASTE DISORDER; TOOTH DISEASE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; VALIDATION STUDY; VOMITING; WEIGHT; XEROSTOMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL;

AGED; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049415517     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2009.27.1916     Document Type: Article

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