Comparing symptom burden in patients with metastatic and nonmetastatic cancer

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 64-68

  Kim, Yunie ^a   Yen, Irene H ^a   Rabow, Michael W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SURVEY; FATIGUE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METASTASIS; NAUSEA; NONMETASTATIC CANCER; PAIN; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WELLBEING; ADULT; AGE; AGED; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE NURSING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE NURSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84952903099     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2011.0456     Document Type: Article

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