Open AccessProspective assessment of demographic characteristics associated with worse health related quality of life measures following definitive chemoradiation in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Author(s) -
Jennifer Vogel,
Xingmei Wang,
Andrea B. Troxel,
Charles B. Simone,
Ramesh Rengan,
Lilie L. Lin
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
translational lung cancer research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.474
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 2226-4477
pISSN - 2218-6751
DOI - 10.21037/tlcr.2019.08.21
Subject(s) - medicine , quality of life (healthcare) , lung cancer , wilcoxon signed rank test , cancer , comorbidity , radiation therapy , prospective cohort study , physical therapy , nursing , mann–whitney u test
The purpose of this study was to evaluate baseline demographic characteristics which may be associated with worse health related quality of life (HRQOL) for patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) receiving definitive chemoradiation (CRT).