Gan to kagaku ryoho. Cancer & chemotherapy
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Gan To Kagaku Ryoho · Aug 2010
[The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire for Japanese patients with bone metastases--The Japanese version of the EORTC QLQ-BM22].
Bone metastasis is a frequent complication of malignant cancer. Previous clinical trials of bone metastasis have largely focused on skeletal related events (SREs) as objective end-points. ⋯ In this study, we introduce the official Japanese version of the EORTC QLQ-BM22 as a module to evaluate QOL in patients with bone metastasis. This module has been developed to be used together with the EORTC QLQ-C30, a QOL scale for patients with cancer, or with its shortened version, EORTC QLQ-C-15-PAL.