Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer-Current State and Future Perspectives

  • Alexander Kretschmer
  • Roderick C N van den Bergh
  • Alberto Martini
  • Giancarlo Marra
  • Massimo Valerio
  • Igor Tsaur
  • Isabel Heidegger
  • Veeru Kasivisvanathan
  • Claudia Kesch
  • Felix Preisser
  • Christian D Fankhauser
  • Fabio Zattoni
  • Francesco Ceci
  • Jonathan Olivier
  • Peter Chiu
  • Ignacio Puche-Sanz
  • Constance Thibault
  • Giorgio Gandaglia
  • Derya Tilki
  • EAU-YAU Prostate Cancer Working Group

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Abstract

With the therapeutic landscape of advanced prostate cancer rapidly evolving and oncological benefits being shown for a plethora of new agents and indications, health-related quality of life (HRQOL)-associated evidence is still subpar. In the current comprehensive review, we discuss the importance of HRQOL for patients with advanced PC (metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC), metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC)), and present the most frequently used tools to evaluate HRQOL in recent randomized trials. Furthermore, we discuss the ease of use of these validated questionnaires for clinicians and try to focus on the suggested appropriate use in clinical practice, as well as potential strategies for improvement of HRQOL evaluation in these clinical scenarios of advanced prostate cancer.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number147
ISSN2072-6694
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022
PubMed 35008310