Calidad de vida de pacientes con tumores cerebrales: panorama actual

  • María Eugenia Olivares
  • Ana Sanz
  • Cristóbal Saldaña
  • Alfonso Roa
Keywords: Quality of life and primary brain tumors,

Abstract

The present article reviews the actual status of the quality of life in primary brain tumours. One begins with a definition and classification of the cerebral tumours according to different variables such as age, gender, cellular origin and histology degree. In addition the quality of life is framed associated to the health, and the works published in the neurooncology area in the two last decades are exposed, reflecting its methodological characteristics and the most important results. In summary, the study of quality of life is an important aspects within neurooncology area, due to high neuro-toxicity and low effectiveness of the multimodal treatments in the survival of this population.

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Published
2006-01-01
How to Cite
Olivares M. E. ., Sanz A. ., Saldaña C. . y Roa A. (2006). Calidad de vida de pacientes con tumores cerebrales: panorama actual. Psicooncología, 3(1), 91-105. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/PSIC/article/view/PSIC0606130091A
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2006)
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