Trajectory of performance status and symptom scores for patients with cancer during the last six months of life

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1151-1158

  Seow, Hsien ^a   Barbera, Lisa ^a   Sutradhar, Rinku ^a   Howell, Doris ^a   Dudgeon, Deborah ^a   Atzema, Clare ^a   Liu, Ying ^a   Husain, Amna ^a   Sussman, Jonathan ^a   Earle, Craig ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; DEATH; DECREASED APPETITE; DEPRESSION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOMA; SKIN CANCER; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952743028     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.30.7173     Document Type: Article

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