Monitoring Adverse Effects of Radiation Therapy in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer: The FACT-HN-RAD Patient-Reported Outcome Measure.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Patients undergoing radiation therapy (RT) for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) experience a range of debilitating adverse effects (AEs). Patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures to quantify these AEs are a necessary and important component of health care; however, currently available PRO options often measure only disease-related symptoms or AEs of non-RT treatments.

Objective

To develop a brief PRO measure of the most common AEs associated with RT for HNSCC.

Design, setting, and participants

This was a qualitative study that followed the US Food and Drug Administration guidelines to develop a brief measure of patient-reported RT-related AEs (the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Head and Neck Radiotherapy [FACT-HN-RAD] measure). The stud

SUBMITTER: Gharzai LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10436187 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature