Quality of life in brain tumor patients

AR Giovagnoli, M Tamburini, A Boiardi - Journal of Neuro-oncology, 1996 - Springer
… The main aims of the study were: - to evaluate the QL of brain tumor patients using a
multidimensional approach; - to compare patients at different stages of disease and treatment, and …

Quality of life among patients with a brain tumor and their carers

M Janda, S Steginga, D Langbecker, J Dunn… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
… This study assessed the quality of life and psychosocial well-being of brain tumor patients
lower levels of quality of life observed among the patients with a brain tumor and their carers …

Distress and quality of life in primary high-grade brain tumor patients

EA Kvale, R Murthy, R Taylor, JY Lee… - Supportive Care in …, 2009 - Springer
… —Brain (FACT-Br) to assess patient distress and quality of life in GBM patients. The purpose
of this study was to examine the relationship between patient quality of life and distress. …

Review on quality of life issues in patients with primary brain tumors

MJB Taphoorn, EM Sizoo, A Bottomley - The oncologist, 2010 - academic.oup.com
… for brain tumor patients is the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory Brain Tumor Module (MDASI-BT),
which has been validated for both primary brain tumor patients and patients with brain …

Quality of life of brain tumor patients

MP Lovely - Seminars in oncology nursing, 1998 - Elsevier
… management and quality of care.1 Quality of life in brain tumor patients has not been studied
extensively, yet the impact of being told the diagnosis of brain tumor is extraordinary. The …

Quality of life in brain tumor patients: the relative contributions of depression, fatigue, emotional distress, and existential issues

G Pelletier, MJ Verhoef, N Khatri, N Hagen - Journal of Neuro-oncology, 2002 - Springer
… to impact on quality of life (QOL) in brain tumor patients, are … issues in a sample of brain
tumor patients (2) to examine the … of 73 patients with primary brain tumors who presented to a …

Psychosocial distress and its effects on the health-related quality of life of primary brain tumor patients

D Randazzo, KB Peters - CNS oncology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
… Brain tumor patients commonly reported emotional and physical … brain tumor patients and
their caretakers and integrate appropriate interventions to improve health-related quality of life

Quality of life self-reports from 200 brain tumor patients: comparisons with Karnofsky performance scores

N Mackworth, P Fobair, MD Prados - Journal of neuro-oncology, 1992 - Springer
quality of life in these patients. Because no such method has been tested for patients with
primary brain tumors… dealt with the concerns these patients frequently bring to our attention. We …

Quality of life and physical limitations in primary brain tumor patients

MR Gazzotti, SMF Malheiros, M Batan Alith… - Quality of life …, 2011 - Springer
… in these patients [5]. Quality of life (QoL) studies on patients with brain tumors have focused
… of brain-tumor patients, such as age, gender, associated complications, location and type of …

Predictors of health-related quality of life in neurosurgical brain tumor patients: focus on patient-centered perspective

A Bunevicius, S Tamasauskas, V Deltuva… - Acta …, 2014 - Springer
Background In brain tumor (BT) patients, the association between health-related quality of
life (HRQoL) and psychological characteristics remains largely unknown. We evaluated the …