Health Related Quality of Life in Patients Treated With Radical Cystectomy and Urinary Diversion for Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder: Development and Validation of a New Disease Specific Questionnaire

Abstract

Instruments designed to measure accurately HRQOL following RC and UD are in early development. We have now constructed and validated a disease and treatment specific questionnaire that can objectively assess HRQOL following RC and UD. A prospective longitudinal study of FACT-VCI is currently ongoing.