Relationship Between Quality of Life Indicators and Cardiac Status Indicators in Chemotherapy Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

With the aim of improving personalized treatment of patients on chemotherapy, the objective of the study was to assess the degree of association between selected Quality of life (QoL) indicators and both clinical and imaging cardiac status indicators when detecting deterioration in QoL of these patients.

Methods

In a cohort clinical study in Hamburg, from August 2017 through October 2020, 59 cancer patients, aged 18-80 years, were evaluated before chemotherapy, and at several follow-ups, using EQ-5D and SF-36 QoL questionnaires, fast strain-encoded (fast-SENC) cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), conventional CMR, and echocardiography, and further received a clinical and biomarker examination. Data was analyzed using survival analyses. A decline of more than 5% in each obse

SUBMITTER: Gersak BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8643110 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature