Authors ’ Reply to the Response to “Patient-reported symptom severity among 22,650 cancer outpatients in the last 6 months of life"

We appreciate the response of Kako et al. to our article, ‘Patient-reported symptom severity among 22,650 cancer outpatients in the last 6 months of life’. Kako and colleagues highlighted that breast cancer, the most common type of cancer among women, was excluded from our study and were concerned this may bias our results. We chose to exclude sex-spec ific cancers, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer, to better understand symptom severity differences between men and women diagnosed with the same cancer, where symptom presentation and disease trajectory are more homogenous.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research