How does health literacy affect quality of life among men with newly diagnosed clinically localized prostate cancer?: Findings from the North Carolina-Louisiana Prostate Cancer Project (PCaP)

Cancer

Volumn 118, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 3842-3851

  Song, Lixin ^a   Mishel, Merle ^a   Bensen, Jeannette T ^a,b   Chen, Ronald C ^a,c   Knafl, George J ^a   Blackard, Bonny ^a   Farnan, Laura ^a   Fontham, Elizabeth ^d   Su, L Joseph ^e   Brennan, Christine S ^d   Mohler, James L ^a,f   Godley, Paul A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

education; health literacy; localized prostate cancer; PCaP; quality of life; race

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RAPID ESTIMATE OF ADULT LITERACY IN MEDICINE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 12; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGED; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84864121810     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26713     Document Type: Article

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