Recruiting long-term survivors of European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer phase III clinical trials into quality of life studies: Challenges and opportunities

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1957-1963

  Van Leeuwen, Marieke ^a   Efficace, Fabio ^b   Fosså, Sophie D ^c   Bolla, Michel ^d   De Giorgi, Ugo ^e   De Wit, Ronald ^f   Holzner, Bernhard ^g   Van De Poll Franse, Lonneke V ^h   Van Poppel, Hendrik ⁱ   White, Jeff ^j   Collette, Laurence ^k   Osanto, Susanne ^l   Aaronson, Neil K ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b Italian Group for Adult Hematologic Diseases GIMEMA Data Center   (Italy)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d HÔPITAL MICHALLON   (France)

^e DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^f ERASMUS MC CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^h TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^j BEATSON WEST OF SCOTLAND CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^k Statistics Department   (Belgium)

^l LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

Cancer survivorship; Health outcomes research; Long term follow up; Prostate cancer; Quality of life; Survey research; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CANCER SURVIVOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRANCE; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TESTIS CANCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

CANCER SURVIVORSHIP; HEALTH OUTCOMES RESEARCH; LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; SURVEY RESEARCH; TESTICULAR CANCER;

CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURVIVORS; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84902273188     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2014.04.018     Document Type: Article

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