Determinants of quality of life in advanced cancer patients with bone metastases undergoing palliative radiation treatment

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3021-3030

  Lam, Kinsey ^a   Chow, Edward ^a   Zhang, Liying ^a   Wong, Erin ^a   Bedard, Gillian ^a   Fairchild, Alysa ^b   Vassiliou, Vassilios ^c   El Din, Mohamed Alm ^d   Jesus Garcia, Reynaldo ^e   Kumar, Aswin ^f   Forges, Fabien ^g   Tseng, Ling Ming ^h   Hou, Ming Feng ⁱ   Chie, Wei Chu ^j   Bottomley, Andrew ^k  

^a DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Bank of Cyprus Group Oncology Centre   (Cyprus)

^d TANTA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^f Regional Cancer Center   (India)

^g UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

^h NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

ⁱ KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^j NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^k EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Baseline factors; Bone metastases; EORTC QLQ C30; Quality of life; Social determinants

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMOTION; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE CORE 30; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PENSIONER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84885674286     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-1876-6     Document Type: Article

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