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Compound Kushen Injection Reduces Severe Toxicity and Symptom Burden Associated With Curative Radiotherapy in Patients With Lung Cancer

Jie Liu, Qingxi Yu, Xin Shelley Wang, Qiuling Shi, Jun Wang, Fan Wang, Simeng Ren, Jiayue Jin, Baojin Han, Wenzheng Zhang, Xueyao Su, Shuanghu Yuan, and Hongsheng Lin

The goal of this multicenter randomized study was to determine the efficacy and toxicity of CKI in reducing the severity of radiation damage and its corresponding benefit on symptom burden in patients with lung cancer, as well as to assess clinical and

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Functional Impairment, Symptom Burden, and Clinical Outcomes Among Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancer

Daniel E. Lage, Areej El-Jawahri, Charn-Xin Fuh, Richard A. Newcomb, Vicki A. Jackson, David P. Ryan, Joseph A. Greer, Jennifer S. Temel, and Ryan D. Nipp

symptom burden and other clinical outcomes. Notably, hospitalized patients with cancer may actually experience more severe symptom burden and functional decline than those in the outpatient setting. 3 These patients are also at risk for poor clinical

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Impact of Pain on Symptom Burden in Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neurotoxicity

Fawaz Mayez Mahfouz, Tiffany Li, Hannah C. Timmins, Lisa G. Horvath, Michelle Harrison, Peter Grimison, Gavin Marx, David Goldstein, and Susanna B. Park

prevalence and symptom burden of painful versus nonpainful CIPN. Patients and Methods Participants Eligible participants were cancer survivors aged ≥18 years and were 3 to 12 months post treatment with neurotoxic chemotherapy (including taxanes

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Symptom Burden, Perceived Control, and Quality of Life Among Patients Living With Multiple Myeloma

Alexandra K. Zaleta, Melissa F. Miller, Julie S. Olson, Eva Y.N. Yuen, Thomas W. LeBlanc, Craig E. Cole, Shauna McManus, and Joanne S. Buzaglo

quality of life (QoL), including fatigue, pain, breathlessness, muscle weakness, and peripheral neuropathy, 11 , 12 which can negatively impact work, social, and familial roles. 13 Research has shown patients with MM experience greater symptom burden and

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Associations of Skeletal Muscle With Symptom Burden and Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancer

Emily van Seventer, J. Peter Marquardt, Amelie S. Troschel, Till D. Best, Nora Horick, Chinenye Azoba, Richard Newcomb, Eric J. Roeland, Michael Rosenthal, Christopher P. Bridge, Joseph A. Greer, Areej El-Jawahri, Jennifer Temel, Florian J. Fintelmann, and Ryan D. Nipp

function and increased mortality. 2 , 13 However, data are lacking to understand how patients’ muscle mass and radiodensity are associated with their symptom burden and healthcare utilization. Hospitalized patients with advanced cancer represent a group

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HSR19-112: Qualitative Development of a Patient-Reported Outcome Measure of Symptom Burden in Breast Cancer

Meagan S. Whisenant, Faith A. Strunk, Debasish Tripathy, and Loretta A. Williams

described their experience in single qualitative interviews. Content analysis was used to define the symptom burden content domain. An expert panel scored the relevance on a 0–4 scale (4 = relevant) of the symptoms identified from the qualitative interviews

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Changes in Prognostic Beliefs of Patients With Metastatic Cancer and Their Association With Changing Health Status

Isabella Gupta, Eric Andrew Finkelstein, Semra Ozdemir, and Chetna Malhotra

health (lower symptom burden, greater physical and functional well-being) will be more likely to have an inaccurate belief, whereas those with recent experience of a sudden deterioration in health or unplanned hospital admission (UHA) will be more likely

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CLO22-067: Symptom Burden in Patients With Myelofibrosis who Have Moderate or Severe Thrombocytopenia: A Retrospective Analysis of Patients Enrolled in the PERSIST-2 Study

Ruben Mesa, Jeanne Palmer, Prithviraj Bose, Stephen Oh, Raajit Rampal, Sarah Buckley, Karisse Roman-Torres, Srdan Verstovsek, and John Mascarenhas

INTRODUCTION : Moderate to severe thrombocytopenia is a recognized marker of poor prognosis and high symptom burden in patients with myelofibrosis (MF). Data from the MPN-QOL study group (Scotch AH, Leuk Res 2017) showed that patients with

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Patient-Reported Symptom Complexity and Acute Care Utilization Among Patients With Cancer: A Population-Based Study Using a Novel Symptom Complexity Algorithm and Observational Data

Linda Watson, Siwei Qi, Claire Link, Andrea DeIure, Arfan Afzal, and Lisa Barbera

randomized controlled trial that showed that patients who routinely reported PROs electronically, with real-time symptom triage and follow-up telephone assessments for patients with high symptom burden, were less frequently admitted to the ED (34% vs 41%) or

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Change Toward Healthier Lifestyles Is Associated With Better Health-Related Quality of Life in Long-Term Colorectal Cancer Survivors

Ruth Elisa Eyl-Armbruster, Melissa S.Y. Thong, Prudence R. Carr, Lina Jansen, Jenny Chang-Claude, Michael Hoffmeister, Hermann Brenner, and Volker Arndt

with survivors with a high baseline HLS, survivors with low baseline HLS had significantly lower functioning (physical, role, and emotional) and poorer global health/QoL ( Figure 1 ). Concerning symptom burden, survivors with low baseline HLS were more