Pretreatment Quality of Life and Functional Status Assessment Significantly Predict Survival of Elderly Patients With Advanced Non—Small-Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Chemotherapy: A Prognostic Analysis of the Multicenter Italian Lung Cancer in the Elderly Study
Author(s) -
Paolo Maione,
Francesco Perrone,
Ciro Gallo,
Luigi Manzione,
Francovito Piantedosi,
Santi Barbera,
S. Cigolari,
Francesco Rosetti,
Elena Piazza,
Sergio Robbiati,
Oscar Bertetto,
Silvia Novello,
Maria Rita Migliorino,
Adolfo Favaretto,
Mario Spatafora,
Francesco Ferraù,
Luciano Frontini,
Alessandra Bearz,
Lazzaro Repetto,
Cesare Gridelli
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of clinical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.482
H-Index - 548
eISSN - 1527-7755
pISSN - 0732-183X
DOI - 10.1200/jco.2005.02.527
Subject(s) - medicine , comorbidity , quality of life (healthcare) , activities of daily living , performance status , lung cancer , quartile , cancer , proportional hazards model , oncology , chemotherapy , physical therapy , confidence interval , nursing
To study the prognostic value for overall survival of baseline assessment of functional status, comorbidity, and quality of life (QoL) in elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer treated with chemotherapy.
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