Lonneke V van de Poll-Franse

..Our aim was to evaluate health related quality of life (HRQL) in endometrial cancer survivors that received routine pelvic LA without RT compared to no LA, but RT in the presence of risk factors...

..The aim of our study was to investigate overall and disease-specific mortality of colorectal cancer patients with diabetes...

..To assess, in an older population, the prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes, the number needed to screen (NNTS) to identify one individual with undiagnosed diabetes, and factors associated with undiagnosed diabetes...

..We also aimed to study when and at which sites cancer patients search for information, the self-reported effect on health care use, and patients' wishes with respect to future internet possibilities...

..However, little is known about the impact of comorbidity on health related quality of life outcomes, which may help men and their physicians facing decisions on primary treatment...

..In contrast to most previous studies, this study aimed to evaluate both surgically and non-surgically treated patients, to avoid the confounding effect of selective referral...

..To evaluate the influence of comorbid cardiovascular disease severity on health-related quality of life (HRQL) in men treated with radical prostatectomy (RP) or radiotherapy (RT) for early stage prostate cancer...

..The objectives of the current study are to describe and quantify the clinical management of women with metastatic breast cancer from the diagnosis of metastatic disease until death and to analyze differences between age groups...

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..QoL among Hodgkin's lymphoma survivors is lower compared to an age-matched normative sample. Survivors furthermore experience some (financial) problems in the years after diagnosis...

..Prognostic impact and clinical relevance of this minimal nodal involvement is under debate and substantial variation in the use of axillary surgery and/or systemic adjuvant treatment could be expected...

..Changes in health care, such as less administrative work for the specialist and more efficiency, are probably necessary in order to cope adequately with the increasing demand on the system...

..Furthermore, variations between subgroups were observed. Good information provision is known to be associated with better quality of life. Survivorship care plans could be a way to achieve this...

..However, it is important to be aware that the positive effects of cancer on a patient's life do not occur in all cancer patients and all phases of the disease trajectory...

..The objective of this population-based study was to document the long-term effects (5-15 years postdiagnosis) of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and its treatment on health-related quality of life (HRQL) and social problems...

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..To explore whether socioeconomic status (SES) was associated with health-related quality of life (HRQL) and health care use among long-term prostate cancer survivors...

..More research on the longitudinal comparison between HL and NHL survivors and healthy controls should be performed in order to better understand the long-term (side) effects of treatment on HRQoL and possibilities to alleviate these...

..If anything, this review shows that focusing on the long-term effects of breast cancer is important when evaluating the full extent of cancer treatment...

..We aimed therefore to compare the health status (HS) and HRQL of DP and disease-free (DF) survivors up to 15 years after initial diagnosis...

..Our practice-based study showed that the presence of sentinel node micrometastases in breast cancer patients has hardly any impact on breast cancer overall survival during the first years after diagnosis...

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..Mean fatigue scores remained stable over time and survivors reporting constant fatigue more often had stage IV disease at diagnosis and comorbidities...

..The aim of this study was to provide insight into the relationship between information provision and illness perceptions among cancer survivors...

..Furthermore, to evaluate the relative impact of self-reported health problems on these outcomes and compare the Dutch normative EORTC QLQ-C30 overall QoL with available Scandinavian and German normative data...

..With this multi-centre patient series we estimated the results of scalp cooling for currently used chemotherapies to provide patient information and we identified characteristics associated with the results...

..In conclusion, diabetic cancer patients frequently were treated less aggressively and had a worse prognosis compared to those without diabetes...

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..To determine the frequency, pathology and causes of a delay in cancer diagnosis in women recalled for suspicious screening mammography...

..This prospective population-based study describes health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disease-specific complaints of patients with multiple myeloma (MM) up to 10 yr post-diagnosis...

..The goal of this large population-based study was to examine the socio-economic implications of cancer survivorship...

..In this study, we examined whether type D was also related to comorbidity burden and health care utilization among cancer survivors...

..However, as the subscale spiritual well-being showed a low internal consistency, which could be related to cultural background, it seems to be appropriate to evaluate the validity and reliability of the QOL-CS in other cultural settings...