A dedicated website for cancer subjects, the nutritional support study: Preliminary results

ecancermedicalscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gnagnarella, Patrizia ^a   Misotti, A M ^a   Santoro, L ^a   Akoumianakis, D ^b   Milolidakis, G ^b   De Lorenzo, F ^c   Lombardo, C ^d,e   Sullivan, R ^f,g   Mcvie, G ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Federazione Italiana Delle Associazioni di Volontariato in Oncologia   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e Organisation of the European Cancer Institutes   (Belgium)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g EuroCancerComs FP7 ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84857016006     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17546605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3332/ecancer.2011.228     Document Type: Article

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