Fatigue in prostate cancer patients treated with external beam radiotherapy: A prospective 5-year long-term patient-reported evaluation

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 516-520

  Fransson, Per ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fatigue; patient reported; prostate cancer; quality of life; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APPETITE DISORDER; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER STAGING; COGNITION; CONSTIPATION; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL STATUS; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FATIGUE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 79952374827     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.77076     Document Type: Article

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