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Toxicity of Therapy and Quality of Life in Patients Treated for CNS Tumors

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Combined Modality Therapy of Central Nervous System Tumors

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Quality of life is a complex and difficult-to-define concept with physical, spiritual, and psychosocial components. This concept is directly dependent on the health status of an individual and closely related to the subjective perception of well-being. During the past decade substantial efforts have been made to find measurable parameters of “health-related quality of life” (HRQOL) and to define a standardized health status instrument. Different quality of life studies based on patient self-assessment reports (Mackworth et al. 1992) or using multiple instruments (Taphoorn et al. 1992) have been used for this purpose.

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Associate Professor, USC Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

    Silvia C. Formenti

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Professor and Chairman, USC Keck School of Medicine, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Room G356, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, USA

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  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Hahnemann University Hospital, Broad & Vine Sts., Mail Stop 200, Philadelphia, PA, 19102, USA

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Formenti, S.C., Petrovich, Z. (2003). Toxicity of Therapy and Quality of Life in Patients Treated for CNS Tumors. In: Petrovich, Z., Brady, L.W., Apuzzo, M.L.J., Bamberg, M. (eds) Combined Modality Therapy of Central Nervous System Tumors. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56411-6_33

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