Quality of life and its related factors among Iranian patients with metastatic gastrointestinal tract cancer: A cross-sectional study

Indian Journal of Palliative Care

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 215-219

  Fard, Jabbar Heydari ^b   Janbabaei, Ghasem ^a  

^a MAZANDARAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Department of Psychiatric Nursing ^*  (Iran)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal tract; Iran; Metastatic cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906233200     PISSN: 09731075     EISSN: 19983735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1075.138398     Document Type: Article

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