Quality of life assessment in clinical cancer research
British Journal of CancerPublished 1 July 1994Open access
Manfred Olschewski, Gabi Schulgen, Martin Schumacher, DG Altman
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In attempting to reach a more comprehensive evaluation of treatment efficacy beyond the objective aspects of achieving optimal survival, maximal tumour response and minimal toxicity, additional end-points in cancer clinical trials were introduced that take into account the subjective response of the patients to their illness and its treatment.
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Classical end-points in clinical therapeutic trials in oncology are usually defined by total, recurrence-free or systemic disease-free survival.Primarily, these allow an adequate de- scription of the biological course of the disease.In current
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