Coming to your senses: Detecting taste and smell alterations in chemotherapy patients. a systematic review

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 880-895

  Gamper, Eva Maria ^a   Zabernigg, August ^b   Wintner, Lisa Maria ^a   Giesinger, Johannes Maria ^a   Oberguggenberger, Anne ^a   Kemmler, Georg ^a   Sperner Unterweger, Barbara ^a   Holzner, Bernhard ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cancer; chemotherapy; olfaction disorders; quality of life; taste disorders

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; GEMCITABINE; IFOSFAMIDE; IRINOTECAN; METHOTREXATE; NAVELBINE; PROCARBAZINE; ZINC;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT INFORMATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SMELLING; SMELLING DISORDER; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TASTE; TASTE DISORDER;

COMORBIDITY; DRUG THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; TASTE DISORDERS;

EID: 84870568523     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.11.011     Document Type: Review

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