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Showing posts with label quality of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quality of life. Show all posts
Saturday, April 28, 2012

press release: Moffitt Cancer Center researchers: Quality of life as important as quantity of life

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Moffitt Cancer Center researchers: Quality of life as important as quantity of life "The question of how well people are surviving ca...
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

abstract: A systematic review evaluating the relationship between progression free survival and post progression survival in advanced ovarian cancer

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 Blogger's Note: this is and has been an ongoing issue in clinical trials as most use still use overall survival (OS) ( as per this pap...
Friday, April 06, 2012

abstract: Management of highly emetogenic chemotherapy

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Management of highly emetogenic chemotherapy. [Curr Opin Oncol. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI   Definition for emetogenic : Web definitions: ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

abstract: [Assessment of health-related quality of life in cancer outpatients treated with chemotherapy] Japanese study

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[Assessment of health-related quality of life in cancer outpatients treated with chemotherapy]. Abstract Purpose:  Few studies ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Editorial: The Relationship Between Cost and Quality, No Free Lunch - March 14, 2012 — JAMA + link to original article

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The Relationship Between Cost and Quality, March 14, 2012, Joynt and Jha 307 (10): 1082 — JAMA   Editorial: The Relationship Between Cost a...
Monday, February 27, 2012

abstract: Patients and staff perceptions of cancer patients' quality of life

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Patients and staff perceptions of cancer patients' quality of life Background Discrepancies exist in estimation of quality of life (...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

abstract: Cognitive function and quality of life in ovarian cancer- Gynecologic Oncology (chemobrain)

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Objectives As advances in treatment have prolonged survival for many patients with ovarian cancer, there has been growing interest i...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

abstract: Quality of life of parents diagnosed with cancer: change over time and influencing factors.

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"Suffering from cancer while having parental responsibilities can amplify the psychosocial strain that the disease puts on the individ...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

abstract: The association between quality of life domains and overall survival in ovarian cancer patients during adjuvant chemotherapy: patients from GOG 172 trial

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Highlights ► Physical QOL is associated with OS in ovarian cancer patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy. ► Poor physical well-be...
Wednesday, February 01, 2012

abstract: Health-related quality of life in recurrent platinum-sensitive ovarian cancer—results from the CALYPSO trial

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Background: In the CALYPSO trial, carboplatin–pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (CD) demonstrated superior therapeutic index versus carbopl...
Monday, January 30, 2012

abstract: Missing content from health-related quality of life instruments: interviews with young adult survivors of childhood cancer

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Missing content from health-related quality of life instruments: interviews with young adult survivors of childhood cancer   Results   R...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

abstract: All’s Well That Ends Well? Quality of Life and Physical Symptom Clusters in Long-Term Cancer Survivors Across Cancer Types (EORTC QLQ-C30)

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Blogger's Note: per abstract it does not appear ovarian cancer patients were included in this study, full access requires subscription...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012

Impact of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting on Quality of Life in Indonesian Patients With Gynecologic Cancer

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Conclusions: Patients reported a negative impact on the QoL of delayed emesis after chemotherapy. Poor prophylaxis of patients’ nausea and...
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Saturday, March 05, 2011

Paper: Analysis of Quality of Life in Cancer Patients by Structural Equation Model (technical)

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Note: see Table 1 for criteria/index of variables
Monday, February 28, 2011

abstract: The use of Chinese herbal medicine to improve quality of life in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer: a double-blind placebo-controlled randomized trial with immunological monitoring — Ann Oncol

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Background: This study aimed to evaluate traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in improving quality of life (QOL), reducing chemotoxicity ...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Health-related quality of life and cancer clinical trials — Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology

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"...Health-related quality of life has become a more accurate predictor of survival than some other clinical parameters, such as perfo...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Surgical management of bowel obstruction in gynaecological malignancies.

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Abstract PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Bowel obstruction in gynaecological malignancies continues to present clinical challenges and a multidisci...
Friday, January 21, 2011

abstract: Health-related quality of life and cancer clinical trials — Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology

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"The overall outlook for the routine assessment of patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials is assured and, e...
Monday, October 11, 2010

abstract/full free access: Improving the interpretation of quality of life evidence in meta-analyses: the application of minimal important difference units

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Abstract: Systematic reviews of randomized trials that include measurements of health-related quality of life potentially provide crit...
Friday, September 10, 2010

End of life 'quality' index | Open Medicine Blog The Quality of Death: Ranking end-of-life care across the world 2010 The Economist Intelligence Unit

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".... Advancements in healthcare have been responsible for the most significant quality-of-life gains in the recent past: that humans ...