Brett C Bade, Julian Zhao, Fangyong Li, Lynn Tanoue, Heather Lazowski, Catherine M Alfano, Gerard A Silvestri, Melinda L Irwin
INTRODUCTION: Health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) is often impaired in lung cancer survivors. To inform personalized survivorship care, we identified associations between HR-QoL scores and patient-, tumor-, and treatment-factors over time. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated HR-QoL scores provided at diagnosis, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years from the Yale Lung Cancer Biorepository. HR-QoL was measured via the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Lung (FACT-L) instrument and available for a subset of patients (n = 513)...
April 16, 2024: Lung Cancer: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer