Integrating palliative medicine into comprehensive breast cancer therapy-a pilot project

Breast Care

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 215-220

  Gaertner, Jan ^a   Wuerstlein, Rachel ^a   Klein, Ursula ^a   Scheicht, Dennis ^a   Frechen, Sebastian ^a   Wolf, Jürgen ^a   Hellmich, Martin ^a   Mallmann, Peter ^a   Harbeck, Nadia ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comprehensive cancer care; Palliative medicine; Quality of life; Shared care; Simultaneous care; Symptom control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959884289     PISSN: 16613791     EISSN: 16613805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328162     Document Type: Article

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