Anorexia, pain and peripheral neuropathy are associated with a decrease in quality of life in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving outpatient chemotherapy — a retrospective observational study

Anorexia, pain and peripheral neuropathy are associated with a decrease in quality of life in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving outpatient chemotherapy — a retrospective observational study

Abstract Background Cancer chemotherapy usually improves clinical outcomes in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC), but can also cause moderate-to-severe adverse events (AEs). We investigated the relationship between moderate-to-severe AEs and quality of life (QOL) in patients with APC who...

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Main Authors: Hironori Fujii, Maaya Koda, Shiori Sadaka, Koichi Ohata, Hiroko Kato-Hayashi, Hirotoshi Iihara, Ryo Kobayashi, Takuma Ishihara, Shinya Uemura, Takuji Iwashita, Hideki Hayashi, Tadashi Sugiyama, Masahito Shimizu, Akio Suzuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-08-01
Series:Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences
Subjects:
Quality of life
Pancreatic cancer
Adverse events related outpatient cancer chemotherapy
Proportional odds logistic regression model
Retrospective observational study
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40780-021-00210-1

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40780-021-00210-1

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