Health-related quality of life in elderly patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma treated with short-course radiation therapy plus concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 285-291

  Minniti, Giuseppe ^a,b   Scaringi, Claudia ^a   Baldoni, Alessandra ^a   Lanzetta, Gaetano ^b   De Sanctis, Vitaliana ^a   Esposito, Vincenzo ^b   Enrici, Riccardo Maurizi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PROGRESSION; GLIOBLASTOMAS; GLOBAL HEALTH; HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIVES; METHODS AND MATERIALS; NEWLY DIAGNOSED GLIOBLASTOMA; PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING; QUALITY OF LIFE;

RADIOTHERAPY; SURVEYS;

DISEASES;

TEMOZOLOMIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; EMOTION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; COGNITION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMMUNICATION; DACARBAZINE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION;

EID: 84877264665     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.02.013     Document Type: Article

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