Long-term prostate cancer survivors with low socioeconomic status reported worse mental healthrelated quality of life in a population-based study

Urology

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1224-1230

  Aarts, Mieke J ^a   Mols, Floortje ^a,b   Thong, Melissa S Y ^a,b   Louwman, Marieke W ^a   Coebergh, Jan Willem W ^a,c   Van De Poll Franse, Lonneke V ^a,b  

^a Eindhoven   (Netherlands)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVOR; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SHORT FORM 36; SOCIAL STATUS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVORS;

EID: 78149359591     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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