Waiting time for cancer treatment and mental health among patients with newly diagnosed esophageal or gastric cancer: a nationwide cohort study
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- 作者：Huan Song ; Fang Fang ; Unnur Valdimarsdóttir ; Donghao Lu…
- 关键词：Mental disorder ; Gastric cancer ; Esophageal cancer ; Cohort study ; Cancer treatment ; Waiting time
- 刊名：BMC Cancer
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：507KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Oncology; Surgical Oncology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2407
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundExcept for overall survival, whether or not waiting time for treatment could influences other domains of cancer patients’ overall well-being is to a large extent unknown. Therefore, we performed this study to determine the effect of waiting time for cancer treatment on the mental health of patients with esophageal or gastric cancer.