Documenting the symptom experience of cancer patients

Journal of Supportive Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 216-223

  Deshields, Teresa L ^a   Potter, Patricia ^a   Olsen, Sarah ^a   Liu, Jingxia ^a   Dye, Linh ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DROWSINESS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HAND PARESTHESIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORIAL SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SURVEY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SYMPTOM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 83455244266     PISSN: 15446794     EISSN: 1879596X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suponc.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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