To conduct a systematic review on validated instruments used to assess quality of life (QOL) in patients with either primary or metastatic lung neoplasms. A literature search was conducted through the Embase (1950 - 2012 week 30) and Medline (1946 - 2012 week 3 July) databases. All compiled studies utilized QOL or symptom palliation as a primary or secondary outcome for patients with advanced l...

BACKGROUND Oesophagogastric (OG) cancer as a globally common and deadly malignancy, which is widely spread in Northeast Iran, has an extensive impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). Demographic and histopathologic changes have been apparent in oesophagogastric cancer, therefore. HRQL could be used, as an outcome, to assess and determine the efficacy and impact of cancer care. METHOD...

In subgroup analyses of EMPOWER-Lung 1, a randomised 1:1 open-label phase III study, improvement in overall survival (OS) with CEMI (n = 48) vs CHEMO 47) (median OS: not reached 7.4 months; HR: 0.38; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.19, 0.75) was observed patients aNSCLC PD-L1 ≥ 50% and baseline liver metastases. this post hoc analysis, we evaluated PROs. PROs were assessed at Day 1 each treatme...

Quality of life (QoL) is an important outcome in assessment of breast cancer treatment. Data comparing QoL after different adjuvant treatments and QoL data on long-term survivors are modest. The aim of this study was to compare QoL scores of patients receiving adjuvant treatment with long-term breast cancer survivors, and to correlate QoL scores with clinical data. Sixty patients were recruited...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Taiwan Chinese Version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire for patients with prostate cancer. METHODS 135 prostate cancer patients were recruited in the urology outpatient clinic of a university teaching hospital. Each patient completed the EORTC QLQ-PR25 at every clinic visit between 2004 and 2008...

PURPOSE We aimed to evaluate psychometric properties of the Korean version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-NMIBC24 when applied to Korean non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 249 patients who underwent curative transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) for primary or recurrent NMIBC were aske...

PURPOSE To evaluate quality of life (QOL) and outcome of patients with anal carcinoma treated with short split-course chemoradiation (CRT). METHODS From 1991 to 2005, 58 patients with anal cancer were curatively treated with CRT. External beam radiotherapy (52 Gy/26 fractions) with elective groin irradiation (24 Gy) was applied in 2 series divided by a median gap of 12 days. Chemotherapy incl...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between two measures that can be used to examine quality life among pediatric burn survivors. DESIGN Prospective, correlational study. SETTING Acute and rehabilitation pediatric burn care facility. PARTICIPANTS Eighty young adult survivors of pediatric burns, who were 18-28 years of age, with burns of 30% or greater, and were at least 2 years after bu...

BACKGROUND Previous studies comparing laparoscopic and open surgical techniques have reported improved health-related quality of life (HRQL). This analysis compared HRQL 12 months after laparoscopic versus open surgery for rectal cancer in a subset of a randomized trial. METHODS The setting was a multicentre randomized trial (COLOR II) comparing laparoscopic and open surgery for rectal cancer...

BACKGROUND Neck dissection surgery is often followed by chronic head and neck pain. To date optimal treatment of this type of pain is lacking. Botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) has been shown to be effective in the treatment of myofascial pain syndrome and headache. In a pilot study, we wanted to test the effectiveness of BTX-A for the treatment of chronic neck pain after neck dissection. METHOD...