A systematic review of quality of life instruments in long-term breast cancer survivors

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 10, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chopra, Ishveen ^a   Kamal, Khalid M ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Breast cancer survivors; Instruments; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; HUMAN; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE CANCER SURVIVOR; QUALITY OF LIFE IN ADULT CANCER SURVIVOR SCALE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX CANCER VERSION; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALIDITY; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BREAST TUMOR; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MASTECTOMY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84856338403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-10-14     Document Type: Review

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