Toward comprehensive multidisciplinary care for head and neck cancer patients: Quality of life versus survival

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States)

Volumn 147, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 404-406

  Morton, Randall P ^a,b  

^a Counties Manukau District Health Board ^*  (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

multidisciplinary team; psychology; quality of life; quality adjusted survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPREHENSION; DIETITIAN; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; PATHOLOGIST; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 84870455260     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: 10976817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0194599812450856     Document Type: Review

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