Pretreatment Quality of Life As a Predictor of Distant Metastasis and Survival for Patients With Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma - Concepedia

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Pretreatment Quality of Life As a Predictor of Distant Metastasis and Survival for Patients With Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

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2010

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Fu‐Min Fang, Wen‐Ling Tsai, Chih‐Yen Chien, Hui‐Chun Chen, Hsuan‐Chih Hsu, Tai‐Lin Huang, Tsair-Fwu Lee, Hsuan‐Ying Huang, Chien‐Hung Lee

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Abstract

Our findings indicate that pretreatment QoL variables, especially physical functioning, provide easily available prognostic value for distant metastasis and survival in patients with NPC.

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