Recurrent brain tumour: The impact of illness on patient's life

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1327-1332

  Lamperti, Elena ^a   Pantaleo, Giuseppe ^b   Finocchiaro, Claudia Yvonne ^a,b   Silvani, Antonio ^a   Botturi, Andrea ^a   Gaviani, Paola ^a   Sarno, Lucio ^b   Salmaggi, Andrea ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NEUROSURGERY   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Depression; Distress; Quality of life; Recurrent brain tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER RELAPSE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTION; EPENDYMOMA; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY-BRAIN; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLIOBLASTOMA; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDULLOBLASTOMA; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OLIGODENDROGLIOMA; PILOCYTIC ASTROCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS INVENTORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL LIFE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863984493     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-011-1220-y     Document Type: Article

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