Predictive factors for overall quality of life in patients with advanced cancer

Gemma Cramarossa,Edward Chow,Liying Zhang,Gillian Bedard,Liang Zeng,Arjun Sahgal,Vassilios Vassiliou,Takefumi Satoh,Palmira Foro,Brigette Buig-yue Ma,Wei-Chu Chie,Emily Chen,Henry Lam,Andrew Bottomley

Predictive factors for overall quality of life in patients with advanced cancer

2013

Gemma Cramarossa
Edward Chow
Liying Zhang
Gillian Bedard
Liang Zeng
Arjun Sahgal
Vassilios Vassiliou
Takefumi Satoh
Palmira Foro
Brigette Buig-yue Ma
Wei-Chu Chie
Emily Chen
Henry Lam
Andrew Bottomley

Objective This study examined which domains/symptoms from the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 15 Palliative (QLQ-C15-PAL), an abbreviated version of the health-related EORTC QLQ-C30 questionnaire designed for palliative cancer patients, were predictive of overall quality of life (QOL) in advanced cancer patients.

Keywords:

Physical therapy
Cancer
Medicine
Quality of life
in patient
Delegation (computing)
advanced cancer
predictive value
pain medicine
physical functioning

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