Publications by authors named "C J Danjoux"
Article Synopsis
- Clinician predicted survival (CPS) is important in palliative care to guide treatment decisions for cancer patients, but this study found that CPS often overestimated actual survival duration.
- In an analysis of 172 cancer patients, survival was overestimated in 78.5% of cases, with an average overestimation of 19 weeks, and factors like Karnofsky Performance Status and cancer type were not strong predictors of CPS accuracy.
- The accuracy of CPS declined compared to a previous study, suggesting a need for improvement in predicting survival to enhance patient care in palliative settings.
Article Synopsis
- The Rapid Response Radiotherapy Program (RRRP) provides same-day consultations, planning, and treatment for palliative cancer patients, aiming for quicker access to care.
- A study compared patient characteristics and overall survival rates between two groups: those treated from 2014 to 2017 and those from 1999; 596 patients from the recent group had a median survival of 15.3 months.
- The results show that the RRRP's patient demographics have shifted over time, leading to improved survival outcomes, likely due to better treatment access and changes in patient profiles.
Purpose: To investigate the relationship between patient and tumor characteristics and pain response in patients with metastatic bone disease, and construct and internally validate a clinical prediction model for pain response to guide individualized treatment decision making.
Material And Methods: A total of 965 patients with painful bone metastases undergoing palliative radiation therapy at a tertiary referral center between 1999 and 2007 were identified. Pain scores were measured at 1, 2, and 3 months after radiation therapy.
Purpose: To identify symptom clusters in advanced cancer patients attending a palliative radiotherapy clinic using the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS).
Methods: Principal component analysis (PCA), exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) were used to identify symptom clusters among the nine ESAS items using scores from each patient's first visit.
Results: ESAS scores from 182 patients were analyzed.
Aim: The present study aimed to determine the prognostic survival value of pretreatment health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and changes in HRQOL following whole-brain radiation treatment in patients with brain metastases.
Methods: Patients who were treated with whole-brain radiation treatment and completed HRQOL questionnaires were included. Univariate and multivariate Cox proportional hazard models of overall survival (OS) were conducted for overall HRQOL and domain scores.