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Breast Cancer
Data on breast cancer detailed by researchers at Maastricht University
June 30th, 2009
"The EQ-5D is a generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measure that is used for the purpose of economic evaluations of health interventions. Therefore, it has to be responsive to meaningful changes in health in the patient population under investigation," investigators in Maastricht, Netherlands report. "The aim of this study was to investigate the responsiveness of the EQ-5D in breast cancer patients in their first year after treatment. The subscale global health of the disease-specific HRQoL measure EORTC QLQ-C30 was used as a reference instrument to determine meaningful changes in health and identify subgroups of patients: patients reporting a moderate-large...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-06-30)
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