作者
Sally Wheelwright, Anne-Sophie Darlington, Jane B Hopkinson, Deborah Fitzsimmons, Alice White, Colin D Johnson
发表日期
2013/9
来源
Supportive Care in Cancer
卷号
21
页码范围
2625-2636
出版商
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
简介
Purpose
Assessing the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of cancer patients with cachexia is particularly important because treatments for cachexia are currently aimed at palliation and treatment efficacy must be measured in ways other than survival. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate HRQOL assessment in cancer patients with cachexia.
Methods
Using guidance from the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, relevant databases were searched from January 1980 to January 2012 with terms relating to cancer, cachexia and HRQOL for papers including adult cancer patients with cachexia or documented weight loss at baseline.
Results
We found one cachexia-specific instrument, the Functional Assessment of Anorexia/Cachexia Therapy, but the tool has not been fully validated, does not cover all the …
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