title: Benefits of using a chemotherapy symptom assessment scale.
abstract: 'Medical Intervention aims to eliminate disease, mitigate disease effect, and maximise quality of life' (Ingham and Portenoy, 1998). Diseases present with signs and symptoms: signs can be measured objectively, symptoms cannot. It is not just disease processes that cause symptoms but also the treatment of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust.
authors.forename: Clare
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dikken
mesh_terms: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000009:adverse effects; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000451:nursing; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000592:standards; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D010147:Pain Measurement; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology; D011788:Quality of Life
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents