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SUMMARY:Asking the Right Questions: Creating a Questionnaire to Assess Quality of Life in Cancer Patients
DESCRIPTION: A Stakeholder Forum for the EUonQoL project: measuring what matters for cancer patients in Europe.\n \n\nBackground\n \nThe improvement or preservation of quality of life (QoL) is one of the three pillars of the European Commission’s Mission on Cancer; one of its core principles being to take the needs of patients into consideration, throughout all the stages of the disease, from cancer diagnosis to treatment, and in some cases the advanced terminal stages of non-curable cases.\n \nQoL assessment in a healthcare setting is of extreme relevance and can be done via Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs), which are self-reporting questionnaires capturing the patients’ perspective on their own health in terms of physical symptoms, functional status, emotional wellbeing, and role functioning. In a word, this enables the measurement of the quality of life associated with their disease or treatments. Nevertheless, full implementation of QoL assessment in routine oncology practice is not yet part of standard of care and health care systems, as cancer control programs do not take into consideration quality of life measures when devising clinical, societal, and healthcare policymaking systems.\n \n \nThe overall objectives of the EUonQoL Project\n \nThe Project aims at developing, piloting, validating, and disseminating the European Oncology Quality of Life toolkit (EUonQoL-Kit) amongst European cancer patients, through an innovative set of questionnaires, specifically designed for the self-assessment of quality of life at different disease phases.\n \n \nWhy is this Stakeholder Forum important for the EUonQoL project?\n \nThe creation of a questionnaire on quality of life at a European level is a novel and one-of-a-kind opportunity; stakeholders, policymakers and co-researchers will have the chance to contribute to its creation during the design and development phase through this forum. A high-level report will be issued following the forum to capture the main points of the discussions and to facilitate drawing conclusions and further connections.
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