Oral health conditions affect functional and social activities of terminally ill cancer patients

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 803-810

  Fischer, D J ^a   Epstein, J B ^b,c   Yao, Y ^a   Wilkie, D J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Functional and social impact; Hospice; Mouth diseases; Pain; Palliative care; Terminally ill

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENTAL HEALTH; ERYTHEMA; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH PAIN; MOUTH ULCER; MYCOSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORAL PROBLEMS SCALE; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASTE DISORDER; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ORAL HEALTH; ORAL ULCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TERMINALLY ILL; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84895875642     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-013-2037-7     Document Type: Article

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