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Quality of Life Assessment in Pancreatic Cancer

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Pancreatic Disease

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Pancreatic cancer is well known to have a short duration of survival after diagnosis, and despite advances in treatment and therapies, little progress has been made regarding the outcome of prolonging quantity of life. Indeed, the majority of patients (80%) will receive palliative medical or surgical interventions aimed at control of symptoms only. Within this context of limited survival, quality of life assumes great importance. Clinicians should be concerned not only with advancing knowledge regarding the biophysical disease process but also with the consequences of illness on the well-being of their patients and how the patients cope with their illness, treatment and care. Such knowledge can only help to advance our understanding of pancreatic cancer.

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  1. Southampton General Hospital, University Surgical Unit, Tremona Road, SO1 6HU, Southampton, UK

    C. D. Johnson MChir, FRCS (Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Faculty of Medicine) (Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Surgeon, Faculty of Medicine)

  2. Surgical Unit, Royal Infirmary, 16 Alexandra Parade, G4 OSF, Glasgow, UK

    C. W. Imrie ChB, FRCS (Consultant Surgeon) (Consultant Surgeon)

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Fitzsimmons, D., Johnson, C.D. (1999). Quality of Life Assessment in Pancreatic Cancer. In: Johnson, C.D., Imrie, C.W. (eds) Pancreatic Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0801-6_40

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