Follow-up routines in gynecological cancer - Time for a change?

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 707-718

  Vistad, Ingvild ^a   Moy, Birgit W ^a   Salvesen, Helga B ^b,c   Liavaag, Astrid H ^d  

^a SØRLANDET HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d Sørlandet Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

Follow up routines; Gynecological cancer; Outcome; Recurrence; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN;

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; NORWAY; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NORWAY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959856734     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01123.x     Document Type: Review

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