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Quality of life in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer
Hakan Bozcuk1, Berna Dalmis, Mustafa Samur
1Department of Medical Oncology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey. hbozcuk@akdeniz.edu.tr
Cancer Nursing
|March 28, 2006
Abstract:
Quality of life (QOL) has been shown to improve with chemotherapy in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the determinants of this improvement have not been thoroughly explored. Fifty consecutive NSCLC patients starting chemotherapy with measurable disease and with an Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of