Comparing the patients' subjective experiences of acute side effects during radiotherapy for head and neck cancer with four different patient-reported outcomes questionnaires.

CONCLUSION: We find, that questionnaires applied in the field of PRO among patients with HNSCC undergoing RT may not fully comprise the experiences of patients and we recommend, that experiences of patients must be included in the design of trials involving PRO, in order to decrease the likelihood of missing out reports of acute side effects. PMID: 30698098 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acta Oncologica - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Acta Oncol Source Type: research