作者
Maarten F De Boer, Bart Van den Borne, Jean FA Pruyn, Richard M Ryckman, Lex Volovics, Paul P Knegt, Cees A Meeuwis, Ilse Mesters, Carel DA Verwoerd
发表日期
1998/12/15
期刊
Cancer: Interdisciplinary International Journal of the American Cancer Society
卷号
83
期号
12
页码范围
2567-2579
出版商
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
简介
BACKGROUND
Studies that have examined correlations between psychosocial factors and survival in cancer patients do not permit any definitive conclusions. To the authors' knowledge, to date no study has examined the relation between medical as well as quality of life variables and survival in head and neck carcinoma patients. The current study focused on the complex interactions among psychosocial, medical, behavioral, and demographic variables as they relate to prognosis in these patients.
METHODS
A total of 133 consecutive head and neck carcinoma patients were included in a prospective study at pretreatment. In addition to clinical variables, psychosocial and physical functioning was assessed by means of a self‐report questionnaire.
RESULTS
During the observation period 57 patients died whereas 76 were still alive at 6 years after treatment. Results of the multivariate survival analysis …
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