Barthel Index-based functional status as a prognostic factor in young and middle-aged adults with newly diagnosed gastric, colorectal and lung cancer: a multicentre retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Functional status assessments of activities of daily living may improve prognostic precision during initial diagnostic evaluations in young and middle-aged adults with cancer. However, the association between pretreatment functional status and survival in these patients is poorly understood. This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of functional status in young and middle-aged patients with cancer.

Design

Multicentre retrospective cohort study.

Setting

We used a cancer registry from Osaka Prefecture, Japan. The data were linked to administrative claims data from 35 hospitals in the same prefecture.

Participants

Patients aged 18-69 years who received new diagnoses of gastric, colorectal or lung cancer between 2010 and 2014.

Main outcome me

SUBMITTER: Morishima T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8054075 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature