Author/Editor | Tannock, Ian F | |
Title | Quality of life issues related to organ sparing | |
Translated title | Razmišljanja o kakovosti življenja in zdravljenju z ohranitvijo organov | |
Type | članek | |
Source | Radiol Oncol | |
Vol. and No. | Letnik 34, št. 3 | |
Publication year | 2000 | |
Volume | str. 275-9, 311 | |
Language | eng | |
Abstract | The aim of organ sparing procedures is to maintain survival with a level of quality of life (QL) that is as high as possible. Methods are now available for evaluating QL in patients treated by quite different strategies and should be included as major endpoints, together with survival, in future clinical trials that investigate organ-sparing strategies. These methods will be useful in decision aiding for strategies leading to similar survival, and in framing choices between improved quality and improved quantity of survival. | |
Summary | Z zdravljenjem z ohranitvijo organov želimo v času preživetja zagotoviti čim višjo kakovost življenja. Danes že poznamo metode za ocenjevanje kakovosti življenja bolnikov, ki jih zdravimo na zelo različne načine. V načrtovanih kliničnih raziskavah, ki proučujejo strategije zdravljenja z ohranitvijo organov, bi bilo potrebno kakovost življenja uvrstiti med raziskovalne teme, tako kot preživetje. Takšne metode bodo v veliko korist in pomoč pri določanju strategij, ki zagotavljajo podobno preživetje, in odločanju med izboljšanjem kakovosti ali količinskosti preživetja. | |
Descriptors | NEOPLASMS QUALITY OF LIFE SURVIVAL ANALYSIS LARYNGECTOMY CYSTECTOMY |