Purpose Patients with cancer experience acute and chronic symptoms caused by their
underlying disease or by the treatment. While numerous studies have examined the impact …

Background: Symptom assessment is critical to understand the effectiveness of cancer
treatment. Traditionally, clinicians have provided the information about cancer patients' …

Abstract Background The National Cancer Institute's Symptom Management and Health-
Related Quality of Life Steering Committee held a clinical trials planning meeting …

Purpose The purpose of this longitudinal study was to track the symptom experience in a
sample of cancer patients, determine the persistence of cancer symptoms and symptom …

BACKGROUND A set of common cancer‐related and treatment‐related symptoms has been
proposed for quality of care assessment and clinical research. Using data from a large …

Cancer and its treatment produce multiple symptoms that significantly distress patients and
impair function. Symptoms caused by treatment may delay treatment or lead to premature …

Symptom burden is certainly not a new concept in the literature on disease and treatment,
but recent developments in our understanding of how to measure symptoms and their …

The suffering of patients with incurable cancer is determined to a large degree by the
presence and intensity of the symptoms of their disease. Knowledge of symptom prevalence …

Purpose A variety of assessment instruments have been created to identify cancer
symptoms. We reviewed systematically cancer symptom assessment instruments published …

We derived a set of brief, clinically relevant symptom indices for assessing symptomatic
response to chemotherapy for advanced bladder, brain, breast, colorectal, head and neck …