This article highlights disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in relation to
race/ethnicity, and census data on poverty in the county or census tract of residence. The …

OBJECTIVE: In addition to traditional clinical markers, quality-of-life assessment can be
helpful to estimate the well-being of patients. Discrepancies in perception of well-being …

The Brief Pain Inventory (BPI; Cleeland and associates) has been used primarily to assess
patients with cancer-related pain. Although it has been validated in many languages and is …

Objectives: To determine:(1) the psychometric properties and utility of 5 types of commonly
used pain rating scales when used with younger and older adults,(2) factors related to …

Background Little is known about the use of palliative care for outpatients who continue to
pursue treatment of their underlying disease or whether outpatient palliative medicine …

Little is known about the prevalence, severity, or impact of symptoms in hemodialysis
patients because of the lack of a validated symptom assessment instrument. We …

This study evaluated the Korean version of the EORTC QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) in terms of
psychometric properties and its validation. One hundred and seventy patients completed …

The majority of clinical studies on pain, fatigue, and depression associated with cancer are
focused on one symptom. Although this approach has led to some advances in our …

A cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted in nationally representative probability
sample of non-Hispanic white subjects, non-Hispanic African American subjects, and …

Control of cancer, neuropathic, and postoperative pain is frequently inadequate or
compromised by debilitating side effects. Inhibition or removal of certain nociceptive …