Measuring patients' expectations regarding health-related quality-of-life outcomes associated with prostate cancer surgery or radiotherapy

Urology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1224-1229

  Symon, Zvi ^a,b,c,d   Daignault, Stephanie ^a   Symon, Rachel ^b   Dunn, Rodney L ^c   Sanda, Martin G ^d   Sandler, Howard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER IRRITATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; EXPANDED PROSTATE CANCER INDEX COMPOSITE INSTRUMENT; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATE SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL FUNCTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; URINE INCONTINENCE;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845309457     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2006.08.1092     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Calman K.C. Quality of life in cancer patients-an hypothesis. J Med Ethics 10 (1984) 124-127
2. Cella D.F., and Tulsky D.S. Quality of life in cancer: definition, purpose, and method of measurement. Cancer Invest 11 (1993) 327-336
3. Wan G.J., Counte M.A., and Cella D.F. The influence of personal expectations on cancer patients' reports of health-related quality of life. Psychooncology 6 (1997) 1-11
4. Cella D.F., Tulsky D.S., Gray G., et al. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure. J Clin Oncol 11 (1993) 570-579
5. Litwin M.S., Flanders S.C., Pasta D.J., et al. Sexual function and bother after radical prostatectomy or radiation for prostate cancer: multivariate quality-of-life analysis from CaPSURE (Cancer of the Prostate Strategic Urologic Research Endeavor). Urology 54 (1999) 503-508
6. Potosky A.L., Harlan L.C., Stanford J.L., et al. Prostate cancer practice patterns and quality of life: the Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study. J Natl Cancer Inst 91 (1999) 1719-1724
7. Wei J.T., Dunn R.L., Sandler H.M., et al. Comprehensive comparison of health-related quality of life after contemporary therapies for localized prostate cancer. J Clin Oncol 20 (2002) 557-566
8. Wei J.T., Dunn R.L., Litwin M.S., et al. Development and validation of the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite (EPIC) for comprehensive assessment of health-related quality of life in men with prostate cancer. Urology 56 (2000) 899-905
9. Herrmann C. International experiences with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale-a review of validation data and clinical results. J Psychosom Res 42 (1997) 17-41
10. Scheier M.F., and Carver C.S. Optimism, coping, and health: assessment and implications of generalized outcome expectancies. Health Psychol 4 (1985) 219-247
11. Penson D.F., McLerran D., Feng Z., et al. 5-Year urinary and sexual outcomes after radical prostatectomy: results from the Prostate Cancer Outcomes study. J Urol 173 (2005) 1701-1705
12. Potosky A.L., Davis W.W., Hoffman R.M., et al. Five-year outcomes after prostatectomy or radiotherapy for prostate cancer: the Prostate Cancer Outcomes study. J Natl Cancer Inst 96 (2004) 1358-1367
13. Hoffman R.M., Gilliland F.D., Penson D.F., et al. Cross-sectional and longitudinal comparisons of health-related quality of life between patients with prostate carcinoma and matched controls. Cancer 101 (2004) 2011-2019
14. Carr A.J., Gibson B., and Robinson P.G. Measuring quality of life: is quality of life determined by expectations or experience?. BMJ 322 (2001) 1240-1243
15. Ong L.M., Visser M.R., Lammes F.B., et al. Effect of providing cancer patients with the audiotaped initial consultation on satisfaction, recall, and quality of life: a randomized, double-blind study. J Clin Oncol 18 (2000) 3052-3060