Predictive factors for overall quality of life in patients with advanced cancer

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1709-1716

  Cramarossa, Gemma ^a   Chow, Edward ^a,i   Zhang, Liying ^a   Bedard, Gillian ^a   Zeng, Liang ^a   Sahgal, Arjun ^b   Vassiliou, Vassilios ^c   Satoh, Takefumi ^d   Foro, Palmira ^e   Ma, Brigette B Y ^f   Chie, Wei Chu ^g   Chen, Emily ^a   Lam, Henry ^a   Bottomley, Andrew ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Bank of Cyprus Group Oncology Centre   (Cyprus)

^d KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e HOSPITAL DE L ESPERANÇA   (Spain)

^f CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^g NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^h EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; EORTC QLQ C15 PAL; Predictive factors; Quality of life; Symptom control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE CORE 15 PALLIATIVE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOREXIA; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879164305     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1717-7     Document Type: Article

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