Do clinicians and patients agree regarding symptoms? A comparison after definitive radiochemotherapy in 223 uterine cervical cancer patients

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 933-939

  Kirchheiner, K ^a   Nout, R ^b   Lindegaard, J ^c   Petric P ^d   Limbergen, E V ^e   Jurgenliemk Schulz I M ^f   Haie Meder, C ^g   Potter R ^a   Dorr W ^h  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^g INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^h DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Morbidity; Patient clinician agreement; Quality of life; Risk assessment; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREVALENCE; RADIATION INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84866726317     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0156-6     Document Type: Article

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