The impact of comorbidity on Health-Related Quality of Life among cancer survivors: analyses of data from the PROFILES registry
- 6 August 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Journal of Cancer Survivorship
- Vol. 7 (4), 602-613
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-013-0299-1
Abstract
The aim of this study was to assess the difference in explained variance of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) between comorbidity, sociodemographic characteristics and cancer characteristics. This association was assessed among thyroid cancer, colorectal cancer, and (non-)Hodgkin's lymphoma patients.Keywords
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