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Quality of Life Experienced by Patients with Cancer.

PB2008110093

Publication Date	1995
Personal Author	Yoder, L. H.
Page Count	116
Abstract	In the last decade, there has been a proliferation of new drugs and strategies for intensifying the treatments used to combat cancer. These aggressive treatment strategies also have led to increasing toxicities experienced by patients. Often, cancer therapies are evaluated solely on the basis of increased survival. It is critical that outcomes for cancer patients move beyond morbidity and mortality statistics, to include information about quality of life (QOL) during and after treatment. Although QOL has been of increasing interest to nurses, they clearly have indicated a desire to have more information about this topic from the patient's perspective. Quality of life and symptom management were repeatedly ranked as the highest priority by nurses responding to the Oncology Nursing Society Research Priority Survey. This is consistent with the National Cancer Institute's recommendation that QOL be included as an outcome measurement in clinical trials. However, such efforts to date only include a relatively small number of cancer patients.
Keywords	Patients Cancer Quality of life Clinical trials Neoplasms Drugs Medical treatment Health care management Morbidity Mortality Statistics Survival Nurses Medical services Surveys
Source Agency	TriService Nursing Research Program/Uniform Services Univ. of the Health Sciences
Corporate Authors	Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept., 1 Oct 95 to 30 Dec 97
NTIS Issue Number	200818

Quality of Life Experienced by Patients with Cancer.

Quality of Life Experienced by Patients with Cancer.
PB2008110093

Publication Date	1995
Personal Author	Yoder, L. H.
Page Count	116
Abstract	In the last decade, there has been a proliferation of new drugs and strategies for intensifying the treatments used to combat cancer. These aggressive treatment strategies also have led to increasing toxicities experienced by patients. Often, cancer therapies are evaluated solely on the basis of increased survival. It is critical that outcomes for cancer patients move beyond morbidity and mortality statistics, to include information about quality of life (QOL) during and after treatment. Although QOL has been of increasing interest to nurses, they clearly have indicated a desire to have more information about this topic from the patient's perspective. Quality of life and symptom management were repeatedly ranked as the highest priority by nurses responding to the Oncology Nursing Society Research Priority Survey. This is consistent with the National Cancer Institute's recommendation that QOL be included as an outcome measurement in clinical trials. However, such efforts to date only include a relatively small number of cancer patients.
Keywords	Patients Cancer Quality of life Clinical trials Neoplasms Drugs Medical treatment Health care management Morbidity Mortality Statistics Survival Nurses Medical services Surveys
Source Agency	TriService Nursing Research Program/Uniform Services Univ. of the Health Sciences
Corporate Authors	Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX.; TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Supplemental Notes	Sponsored by TriService Nursing Research Program, Bethesda, MD.
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Final rept., 1 Oct 95 to 30 Dec 97
NTIS Issue Number	200818