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The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) is a general cancer questionnaire that serves as the core measure of the EORTC’s modular approach to the assessment of health-related quality of life in cancer patients (Aaronson et al., 1993). It assesses five function domains (physical, role, emotional, social, and cognitive), eight symptoms (nausea/vomiting, appetite loss, insomnia, dyspnea, fatigue, pain, constipation, diarrhea), plus financial impact and global health/quality of life. For most items, the recall period is the past week, and patients report using a 4-point scale: not at all, a little, quite a bit, and very much. All domains are transformed to a 0–100 scale, with higher scores indicating more of what is being measured (i.e., higher scores are better for function domains but worse for symptom domains). The QLQ-C30 questionnaire can be used in conjunction with disease- or condition-specific...
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Snyder, C. (2014). EORTC QLQ-C30 and the Supportive Care Needs Survey. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_3942
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