Correlating Patient-Reported Quality of Life before, during, and after Therapy with Objective Measures and Outcomes
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (5 July 2024) | Viewed by 27526
Special Issue Editors
Interests: patient safety/quality; head and neck
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The incorporation of patient-reported outcomes (PRO) and quality of life (QOL) is standard practice in modern cancer clinical trials for any combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy. While these metrics were designed to characterize the patient’s experience of disease and treatment sequalae, a growing body of evidence suggests that PRO/QOL parameters can have prognostic implications.
Many validated instruments are currently in use. The correlation of these instruments with objective measures (such as imaging, biomarkers, patient functioning, and survival) is necessary to identify the optimal instrument(s) for each population.
In this Special Issue, we invite original manuscripts and review articles on all topics comparing PRO/QOL instruments, with an emphasis on correlations with objective measures such as imaging, biomarkers (immune function, markers of stress, etc.), patient functioning, and survival.
Prof. Dr. Anurag K. Singh
Dr. Evan Michael Graboyes
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- PRO
- QOL
- imaging
- physical functioning
- biomarkers
- immune
- survival
- surgery
- chemotherapy
- radiation
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