Quality of life in patients with thyroid cancer compared with the general population

Thyroid

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-124

  Singer, Susanne ^a,b   Lincke, Thomas ^b   Gamper, Eva ^c   Bhaskaran, Krishnan ^d   Schreiber, Stefan ^b   Hinz, Andreas ^b   Schulte, Thomas ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e Rehabilitation Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; CANCER STAGING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; VOMITING;

EID: 84856602545     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: 15579077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2011.0139     Document Type: Review

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