"It can't be very important because it comes and goes"-patients' accounts of intermittent symptoms preceding a pancreatic cancer diagnosis: A qualitative study

BMJ Open

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Evans, Julie ^a   Chapple, Alison ^a   Salisbury, Helen ^a   Corrie, Pippa ^b   Ziebland, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ASTHENIA; BACKACHE; BLOATING; BURNING SENSATION; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; ERUCTATION; EYE JAUNDICE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; HUMAN; INDIGESTION; INTERMITTENT SYMPTOM; INTERVIEW; LOSS OF APPETITE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAUSEA; PALLOR; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREAS SURGERY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SHOULDER PAIN; STEATORRHEA; SWEATING; SYMPTOM; TASTE DISORDER; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREAT BRITAIN; MORTALITY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84896806656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004215     Document Type: Article

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