Patient-Reported Quality of Life During Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy: Insights Into the Patient Experience - International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Patient-Reported Quality of Life During Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy: Insights Into the Patient Experience - International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics: As early detection and treatment advances have optimized control and survival for localized prostate cancer, the emphasis has shifted toward managing the toxicity incurred during treatment. One measure of this toxicity is health-related quality of life (HRQOL), which is now frequently employed as a primary endpoint on large cooperative group prostate cancer clinical trials (eg, NRG RTOG 0938, NRG GU-005, PARTIQoL). Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) are the gold standard for reporting HRQOL because they are less prone to physician bias.

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