Quality of life and survival prediction in terminal cancer patients

Abstract

BACKGROUND.It remains unclear whether health-related quality of life (HRQoL)

Construction of a new, objective prognostic score for terminally ill cancer patients: a multicenter study

“…The median survival time was 26 days [95% confidence interval (CI), [22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. The number of men was 100 (47.8%).…”

A longitudinal study of the role of patient-reported outcomes on survival prediction of palliative cancer inpatients in Taiwan

“…Identification of such factors could improve prognostic accuracy and facilitate health care providers' decision making in selecting the most appropriate care plan [14]. Prior studies have shown the following to have predictive value for assessing the length of survival of terminal cancer patients: performance status [8-10, 14, 40], pain [40], fatigue [8,10,39], clinical symptoms [8,40], and quality of life [12,36,64]. Some studies of cancer patients, including patients not necessarily in a terminal phase, have identified quality of life as having an important prognostic factor [6,16,20].…”

Quality of Life After Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Survival

“…A breast cancer survivor's physical well-being has most consistently been found to be predictive of survival, [5][6][7][8][9] but several studies have found that even this QOL measure, particularly when taken soon after diagnosis or for women with early-stage breast cancer, is often not associated with prognosis. 6,10,11 Aspects of a breast cancer survivor's social and/or psychosocial well-being have also been examined, [12][13][14] with several of the studies suggesting that greater social support may be associated with longer survival.…”