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Study findings on cancer are outlined in reports from Y.B. Cheung and colleagues
June 16th, 2009
According to a study from Singapore, Singapore, "Health-related quality of life is an important aspect of health outcome. The assessment of it must be done by validated instruments." "There is no published data on the validity, reliability and sensitiveness to change of the official Chinese translation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (version 4; FACT-G). A Chinese questionnaire package comprising the FACT-G and Functional Living Index-Cancer (FLIC, which was translated, modified and validated in Singapore) was filled in by 165 ethnic Chinese patients recruited from the National Cancer Centre, Singapore. Four weeks later, the patients were assessed...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-16)
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