Profile of Daily Life in Children With Brain Tumors: An Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life

• Published in: Journal of clinical oncology Vol. 23; no. 24; pp. 5493 - 5500
• Main Authors: BHAT, Sundeep R, GOODWIN, Tress L, FISHER, Paul G, BURWINKLE, Tasha M, LANSDALE, Meagan F, DAHL, Gary V, HUHN, Stephen L, GIBBS, Iris C, DONALDSON, Sarah S, ROSENBLUM, Ruth K, VARNI, James W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore, MD American Society of Clinical Oncology 20.08.2005; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Subjects: Adolescent; Analysis of Variance; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Neoplasms - physiopathology; Brain Neoplasms - psychology; Brain Neoplasms - therapy; Case-Control Studies; Child; Child, Preschool; Female; Humans; Male; Medical sciences; Neurology; Quality of Life; Sickness Impact Profile; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tumors; Tumors of the nervous system. Phacomatoses; Human; Nervous system diseases; Cancerology; Central nervous system disease; Child; Intracranial tumor; Health-Related Quality of Life; Cerebral disorder

The survival of children with CNS tumors approaches 70%, yet health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has not been investigated rigorously in this population. We aimed to show that universal assessment of HRQOL could be obtained easily by using the PedsQL 4.0 and to provide a composite profile of thei...