A study of symptoms described by ovarian cancer survivors

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 59-64

  Stavraka, Chara ^a   Ford, Amy ^b   Ghaem Maghami, Sadaf ^b   Crook, Tim ^b   Agarwal, Roshan ^b   Gabra, Hani ^b   Blagden, Sarah ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Ovarian cancer; Quality of life; Questionnaire; Survivorship

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRY SKIN; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HAIR LOSS; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARTBURN; HOSPITAL CARE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NAUSEA; NIGHT SWEAT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POLLAKISURIA; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRATIFICATION; SYMPTOM; VAGINAL DRYNESS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FALLOPIAN TUBE NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84858340603     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.12.421     Document Type: Article

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