Health related quality of life in patients with neuroendocrine tumors compared with the general Norwegian population.
Purpose: Health related quality of life (HRQoL) was characterized among patients with neuroendocrine tumor (NET) and compared with the general Norwegian population.Methods: A cross sectional, comparative design was chosen, and the samples comprised 196 NET patients and 5,258 individuals from the gen...
| Publicado en: | Quality of Life Research Vol. 18; no. 6; pp. 719 - 727 |
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Springer Nature
Aug2009
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