Employment pathways and work-related issues in head and neck cancer survivors

Head and Neck

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 585-593

  Koch, Robert ^a   Wittekindt, Claus ^a,d   Altendorf Hofmann, Annelore ^b   Singer, Susanne ^c   Guntinas Lichius, Orlando ^a  

^a JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

anxiety; coping; depression; employment; head and neck cancer; health related quality of life; survivorship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLUE COLLAR WORKER; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PATIENT HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE 9; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALIVARY GLAND CANCER; UNEMPLOYMENT; WHITE COLLAR WORKER; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AGED; DISABLED PERSON; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABLED PERSONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84925678427     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23640     Document Type: Article

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