Validation of the Mexican Spanish version of the EORTC QLQ-H&N35 instrument to measure health-related quality of life in patients with head and neck cancers

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1417-1426

  Carrillo, José F ^a   Ortiz Toledo, Miguel Ángel ^a   Salido Noriega, Zarahi ^a   Romero Ventura, Norma Berenice ^a   Ochoa Carrillo, Francisco J ^a   Oñate Ocaña, Luis F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; EYE CANCER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLA SINUS CANCER; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NOSE CAVITY CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE C30 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUALITY OF LIFE H AND N35 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SALIVARY GLAND CANCER; SWEAT GLAND TUMOR; THYROID CARCINOMA; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84880074784     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-012-2712-9     Document Type: Article

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