Quality of life among patients with hematological cancer in a Malaysian hospital

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-120

  Priscilla, D ^a   Hamidin, A ^a   Azhar, M Z ^a   Noorjan, K O N ^a   Salmiah, M S ^a   Bahariah, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Hematological cancer; Quality of life; Symptomatology

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAYSIA; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALAYSIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960975571     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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