Frequent and early death limits quality of life assessment in patients with advanced malignancies evaluated for palliative surgical intervention

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3651-3658

  Badgwell, Brian ^a   Krouse, Robert ^b   Cormier, Janice ^c   Guevara, Caesar ^a   Klimberg, V Suzanne ^a   Ferrell, Betty ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CHOLECYSTOSTOMY; COLOSTOMY; CONSULTATION; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEEDING DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE RESECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PARACENTESIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSHEPATIC CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF CARE; STOMACH TUBE; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868106403     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2420-5     Document Type: Article

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