The nature and extent of body image concerns among surgically treated patients with head and neck cancer

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 836-844

  Fingeret, Michelle Cororve ^a   Yuan, Ying ^a   Urbauer, Diana ^a   Weston, June ^a   Nipomnick, Summer ^a   Weber, Randal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

body image; head and neck cancer; psychosocial oncology; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGEUSIA; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY IMAGE SCALE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIPHORA; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY SCALE HEAD AND NECK VERSION; GENDER; GROOMING; HAIR LOSS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSTHESIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SPEECH DISORDER; STOMA; SURGICAL PATIENT; SWELLING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA; AGED; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY IMAGE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84864490129     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1990     Document Type: Article

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