Effects of pain, fatigue, insomnia, and mood disturbance on functional status and quality of life of elderly patients with cancer

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-137

  Cheng, Karis K F ^a   Lee, Diana T F ^a  

^a and Hong Kong Branch of CAS Center for Excellence in Animal Evolution and Genetics   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Elderly cancer patients; Fatigue; Insomnia; Mood disturbance; Pain; Symptom cluster

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SYMPTOM DISTRESS SCALE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS;

EID: 79953302870     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2010.03.002     Document Type: Review

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