Health-related quality of life after radical prostatectomy depends on patient's age but not on comorbidities

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 266.e1-266.e7

  Herkommer, Kathleen ^a   Schmid, Sebastian C ^a   Schulwitz, Helga ^a   Dinkel, Andreas ^a   Klorek, Tobiasz ^a   Hofer, Christian ^a   Ehrl, Dennis ^a   Blaser, Rainer ^a   Gschwend, Jürgen E ^a   Kron, Martina ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Institute of Biometry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charlson index; Prostate cancer; QLQ C30; Quality of life; Radical prostatectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DYSPNEA; EMOTION; FATIGUE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; QOL C30 QUESTIONNAIRE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICAL RETROPUBIC PROSTATECTOMY; ROLE FUNCTIONING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; PROCEDURES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; COMORBIDITY; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84929951886     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2015.03.005     Document Type: Article

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