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Quality‐of‐life evaluation in cancer: The past and the future
Author(s) -
Gralla Richard J.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.29680
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , cancer , quality (philosophy) , outcome (game theory) , intensive care medicine , medical physics , nursing , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical economics
A systematic review by Koller and colleagues in this issue demonstrates that quality‐of‐life/patient‐reported outcome measures can and should be used in the clinic. Wider use of validated measures allows a more complete evaluation of new therapies and, more important, should be provided to all patients with cancer.