Financial distress and its associations with physical and emotional symptoms and quality of life among advanced cancer patients

Oncologist

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1092-1098

  Delgado Guay, Marvin ^a   Ferrer, Jeanette ^b   Rieber, Alyssa G ^a   Rhondali, Wadih ^c   Tayjasanant, Supakarn ^a   Ochoa, Jewel ^a   Cantu, Hilda ^a   Chisholm, Gary ^a   Williams, Janet ^a   Frisbee Hume, Susan ^a   Bruera, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Lyndon B Johnson General Hospital   (United States)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER LYON SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Advanced cancer; Financial distress; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; FINANCIAL DISTRESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT INDEX; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; COMPLICATION; ECONOMICS; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; NEOPLASM; PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84940663659     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2015-0026     Document Type: Article

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