Clinical lung cancer
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Advanced lung cancer is often symptomatic; thus the goals of treatment include maintenance of function and palliation of symptoms. Symptom management requires accurate systematic symptom assessment. This study, which focused on lung cancer, is part of a larger study to obtain patient input that, in combination with previously obtained physician and nurse input, was used to develop symptom indexes for 11 advanced cancers. ⋯ The NFLSI-17 reflects the most important patient- and clinician-rated targets of chemotherapy for advanced lung cancer; further validation will follow.