Nighttime salivary cortisol as a biomarker of stress and an indicator of worsening quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer: A cross-sectional study.
Marla S P CruzTercio G ReisAntoniel C OliveiraMarluce M MacedoJosé de BessaMárcio C OliveiraPublished in: Health science reports (2022)
Among the time points for saliva sampling, nighttime cortisol was found to have the best accuracy, which was similar to that of the PSS, for the detection of patients with the worst quality of life.