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Health Related Quality of Life among Blood Cancer Patients in Pakistan: A Cross Sectional Survey.
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- Electronic patient-reported outcome platforms used in hematological cancers: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2026Pooled it
- Quality of Life and Symptoms of Hospitalized Hematological Cancer Patients.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- miR-4716-3p and the target AKT2 Gene/rs2304186 SNP are associated with blood cancer pathogenesis in Pakistani population.Non-coding RNA research · 2024Article
- Assessing health-related quality of life among cancer survivors during systemic and radiation therapy in Bangladesh: a cancer-specific exploration.BMC cancer · 2023Article
- Health-Related Quality of Life and Treatment Satisfaction of Patients with Blood Cancer in Kazakhstan: A Cross-Sectional Study.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2023Article
- Evaluation of quality of life of gastrointestinal cancer patients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan.Ecancermedicalscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
The importance of health-related quality of life and its determinants including physical, emotional, and functional domains has long been recognized among blood cancer patients in the developed world but this concept is still in infancy in developing countries, including Pakistan. The objective of the study was to assess health related quality of life among blood cancer patients. A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used. A pre-validated questionnaire that is EORTC-QLQ-C30 was self-administered to a sample of 400 blood cancer patients selected using convenience sampling technique. After data collection, data was cleaned, coded, and entered in SPSS. Descriptive statistics comprising of frequency and percentages were calculated. Non-parametric tests Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney tests (
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