Symptom burden, survival and palliative care in advanced soft tissue sarcoma

Sarcoma

Volumn 2011, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gough, Nicholas J ^a,b   Smith, Clare ^a,c   Ross, Joy R ^a,c   Riley, Julia ^a,c   Judson, Ian ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PAIN; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMMUNITY; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LIPOSARCOMA; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METASTASIS; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SYMPTOM; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; URINARY DYSFUNCTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84862957269     PISSN: 1357714X     EISSN: 13691643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2011/325189     Document Type: Article

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