Clinically meaningful changes in health-related quality of life in patients diagnosed with hepatobiliary carcinoma
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Clinically meaningful changes in health-related quality of life in patients diagnosed with hepatobiliary carcinoma.
BACKGROUND To test the reliability, sensitivity to change in biomarkers associated with disease progression and response to treatment, and clinical meaningfulness of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Hepatobiliary (FACT-Hep) in patients with hepatobiliary carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred and fifty-eight patients diagnosed with hepatobiliary carcinoma were prospectively st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdj072