Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have a life expectancy of less than 1 year. Therefore, it is important to maximize their quality of life and find a tool that can more accurately predict survival.#The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) is used to predict survival ...
NSCLC, non-small-cell lung cancer; SCLC, small-cell lung cancer. ⁎ We did not calculate a staging phase for resection surgery because for many patients it overlapped with the month of surgery (median time from diagnosis until surgery was 18 days, see Figure 1B). Table 4. Initial phase...
Furthermore, hospice dementia guidelines are better at predicting who will not die in 6 months than who will. Data predicting life expectancy after an acute illness are useful, but may be difficult to use if no such illness occurs. Life tables reinforce the relationship between age, poor ...
Not surprisingly, psychiatric symptoms, disorders, and emotional distress are relatively common among cancer patients, in particular those with end-stage cancer ([1], also see [2]; see Fig.1), which is the terminal phase of cancer—including hospice and the latter part of palliative care [1,...
Objectives: Patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have a life expectancy of less than 1 year. Therefore, it is important to maximize their quality of life and find a tool that can more accurately predict survival.O'Mahony, SeanNathan, SusanMohajer, RoozbehBonomi, Philip...