Fatigue after treatment in breast cancer survivors: Prevalence, determinants and impact on health-related quality of life

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1901-1909

  Kluthcovsky, Ana Claudia Garabeli Cavalli ^a   Urbanetz, Almir Antonio ^b   De Carvalho, Denise Siqueira ^b   Maluf, Eliane Mara Cesario Pereira ^b   Sylvestre, Geovana Cristina Schlickmann ^c   Hatschbach, Sergio Bruno Bonatto ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF PONTA GROSSA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^c Hospital Erasto Gaertner   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Fatigue; Predictors; Prevalence; Quality of life; Survivors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CANCER THERAPY; CARCINOMA IN SITU; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PAIN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAZIL; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84863981560     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1293-7     Document Type: Article

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