All's well that ends well? Quality of life and physical symptom clusters in long-term cancer survivors across cancer types

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 720-731

  Zucca, Alison C ^a,b   Boyes, Allison W ^a,b   Linden, Wolfgang ^c,d   Girgis, Afaf ^a,b  

^a CANCER RESEARCH DIVISION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; long term; multiple symptoms; quality of life; survivor; symptom clusters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSPNEA; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOMA; NAUSEA; PAIN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM CLUSTER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PREVALENCE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859217486     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.04.023     Document Type: Article

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