Predictors of functional decline in locally advanced head and neck cancer patients from South Brazil

Head and Neck

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1217-1225

  Silver, Heidi J ^a   De Campos Graf Guimaraes, Christine ^b   Pedruzzi, Paola ^c   Badia, Maraisa ^c   Spuldaro De Carvalho, Adriana ^c   Oliveira, Benedito V ^c   Ramos, Gyl H A ^c   Dietrich, Mary S ^d   Pietrobon, Ricardo ^e  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Grafguimaraes Clinic   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Erasto Gaertner   (Brazil)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

fatigue; functional ability; head and neck cancer; performance status; weight loss

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONSTIPATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIARRHEA; DYSPHAGIA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTICATION; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGED; BRAZIL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ONCOLOGY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 78349285144     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21322     Document Type: Article

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