The impact of radiotherapy on symptoms, anxiety and qol in patients with cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1771-1776

  Gogou, Penelope ^a   Tsilika, Eleni ^b   Parpa, Efi ^b   Kouvaris, Ioannis ^b   Damigos, Dimitrios ^a   Balafouta, Myrsini ^b   Maureas, Venetsanos ^a   Mystakidou, Kyriaki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Quality of life; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ANXIETY ASSESSMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; ERYTHEMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOPENIA; LINEAR ANALOG SCALE ASSESSMENT; M D ANDERSON SYMPTOM INVENTORY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NEOPLASM; NOCTURIA; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SPIELBERGER STATE AND TRAIT INVENTORY; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; VOMITING; ANXIETY; ETIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84924937341     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: 17917530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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