Health-related quality of life supersedes other psychosocial predictors of long-term survival in cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1020-1028

  Sehlen, Susanne ^a   Marten Mittag, Birgitt ^b   Herschbach, Peter ^b   Schweden, Monika ^a   Book, Katrin ^b   Henrich, Gerhard ^b   Dühmke, Eckhard ^a   Dinkel, Andreas ^b  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LIFE SATISFACTION; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF-RATING DEPRESSION SCALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STRESS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MARITAL STATUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867516958     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2012.683879     Document Type: Article

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