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 …

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
… in an oncology day centre (rather similar to our ambulatory brain tumor patient cohort)
with cancer patients in a palliative care setting. These two groups of patients were asked to …

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

EA Kvale, R Murthy, R Taylor, JY Lee… - … Care in Cancer, 2009 - Springer
… distress and quality of life in primary brain tumor patients has … help support patient quality of
life in brain tumor patients. The … and quality of life in brain tumor patients; (2) to identify patient

Impact of brain tumour treatment on quality of life

JJ Heimans, MJB Taphoorn - Journal of neurology, 2002 - Springer
… increased intracranial pressure and may also occur at tumour recurrence. Apart from these
“general tumour symptoms” brain tumour patients may suffer from focal neurological deficits, …

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

Functional outcomes and quality of life in patients with brain tumors: a preliminary report

ME Huang, JE Wartella, JS Kreutzer - Archives of physical medicine and …, 2001 - Elsevier
… the quality of life (QOL) in these patients. Functional impairments resulting from brain tumors
… The brain tumor patient confronts confusion from the disease itself, adaptation to evolving …

Quality of life and brain tumors: what beyond the clinical burden?

AR Giovagnoli, RF Meneses, A Silvani, I Milanesi… - Journal of …, 2014 - Springer
… Since the seventies, quality of life (QoL) has gained an increasing relevance to the evaluation
of patients with brain tumor (BT) [1–7], complementing traditional measures of survival or …

Quality of life in adults with brain tumors: current knowledge and future directions

R Liu, M Page, K Solheim, S Fox, SM Chang - Neuro-oncology, 2009 - academic.oup.com
… to manage symptoms in primary brain tumor patients. This review … brain tumor patients,
the challenges to QOL research, and future directions for QOL research in brain tumor patients