Presence of symptom clusters in surgically treated patients with esophageal cancer: Implications for survival

Cancer

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 286-293

  Wikman, Anna ^a   Johar, Asif ^a   Lagergren, Pernilla ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

clusters; health related quality of life; mortality; prospective; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; EATING DISORDER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH AND TREATMENT OF CANCER; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TASTE DISORDER; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84891882442     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.28308     Document Type: Article

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