Quality of life as a prognostic factor for survival in hepatocellular carcinoma.

Malin Sternby Eilard Hannes HagströmKim Erlend MortensenTom WilsgaardOla Magne VagnildhaugOlav DajaniPer StålMagnus Rizell

Published in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2017)

Quality-of-life questionnaires can prognosticate mortality in HCC patients. When combined with established scoring systems, both the general cancer questionnaire EORTC QLQ C30, and the additional liver cancer-specific HCC18 increased the prognostic accuracy slightly.

Keyphrases

prognostic factors
end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
papillary thyroid
peritoneal dialysis
cardiovascular events
patient reported
cross sectional
type diabetes
lymph node metastasis
young adults
squamous cell