Individualizing Quality-of-Life Outcomes Reporting: How Localized Prostate Cancer Treatments Affect Patients With Different Levels of Baseline Urinary, Bowel, and Sexual Function | Zendy

Ronald C. Chen | Zendy; Jack A. Clark | Zendy; James A. Talcott | Zendy

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Individualizing Quality-of-Life Outcomes Reporting: How Localized Prostate Cancer Treatments Affect Patients With Different Levels of Baseline Urinary, Bowel, and Sexual Function

Author(s) -

Ronald C. Chen,

Jack A. Clark,

James A. Talcott

Publication year - 2009

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.2008.18.6486

Subject(s) - medicine , prostate cancer , sexual function , quality of life (healthcare) , prostatectomy , brachytherapy , sexual dysfunction , prospective cohort study , cancer , urinary system , erectile dysfunction , distress , prostate , oncology , radiation therapy , clinical psychology , nursing

Although it is the most powerful predictor of early prostate cancer treatment-related complications and quality-of-life (QOL) outcomes, most studies do not stratify results by baseline function. Further, reporting functional outcomes as averaged numerical results may obscure informatively disparate courses. Using levels of treatment-related dysfunction, we address these problems and present the final QOL outcomes of our prospective cohort study of patients with early prostate cancer.

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