Long-term prospective longitudinal evaluation of emotional distress and quality of life in cervical cancer patients who remained disease-free 2-years from diagnosis

BMC Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mantegna, Giovanna ^a   Petrillo, Marco ^b   Fuoco, Gilda ^a   Venditti, Laura ^a   Terzano, Serena ^a   Anchora, Luigi Pedone ^b   Scambia, Giovanni ^b   Ferrandina, Gabriella ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Emotional distress; Long term evaluation; Prospective study; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EARLY CANCER; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EORTC CX24 QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH STATUS SCALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS LYMPHADENECTOMY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; SEXUAL FUNCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84875083840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-127     Document Type: Article

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