Quality of life assessment by applying EORTC questionnaires to rectal cancer patients after surgery and neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment

Revista Espanola de Enfermedades Digestivas

Volumn 105, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 255-261

  Arraras, Juan Ignacio ^a,b   Suárez, Javier ^c   Arias de la Vega, Fernando ^a   Vera, Ruth ^b   Ibáñez, Berta ^d   Asin, Gemma ^a   Viudez, Antonio ^b   Zarandona, Uxue ^a,b   Rico, Mikel ^a   Hernández, Irene ^b  

^a Department of Radiotherapeutic Oncology   (France)

^b Department of Medical Oncology   (United States)

^c Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cancer; Chemoradiotherapy; Quality of life; Rectal; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EORTC QUESTIONNAIRE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FLATULENCE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM SURGERY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINARY FREQUENCY; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; EVALUATION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84884897781     PISSN: 11300108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S1130-01082013000500003     Document Type: Article

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