Predictive Factors for Well-being in Advanced Cancer Patients Referred for Palliative Radiotherapy

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 443-451

  Lien, K ^a   Zeng, L ^a   Zhang, L ^a   Nguyen, J ^a   Di Giovanni, J ^a   Popovic, M ^a   Jamani, R ^a   Cramarossa, G ^a   Culleton, S ^a   Chow, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Edmonton symptom assessment system; Symptom control; Well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PAIN; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DROWSINESS; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; WELLBEING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863816666     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: 14332981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2012.01.004     Document Type: Article

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