Anorexia, pain and peripheral neuropathy are associated with a decrease in quality of life in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer receiving outpatient chemotherapy - a retrospective observational study

• Main Authors: Hironori Fujii (Author), Maaya Koda (Author), Shiori Sadaka (Author), Koichi Ohata (Author), Hiroko Kato-Hayashi (Author), Hirotoshi Iihara (Author), Ryo Kobayashi (Author), Takuma Ishihara (Author), Shinya Uemura (Author), Takuji Iwashita (Author), Hideki Hayashi (Author), Tadashi Sugiyama (Author), Masahito Shimizu (Author), Akio Suzuki (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Cancer chemotherapy usually improves clinical outcomes in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer (APC), but can also cause moderate-to-severe adverse events (AEs). We investigated the relationship between moderate-to-severe AEs and quality of life (QOL) in patients with APC who...