Publications by authors named "E Holoubkova"

Backround: We aimed to determine prognosis of vitality change and functional status of breast cancer survivors after primary oncological treatment using time-related differences of elevated levels of highly sensitive proinflammatory C-reactive protein (CRP).

Patients And Methods: The test group consisted of 46 elderly breast cancer survivors (median age was 65 years) who completed Vitality Scale of Short Form 36 (SF-36) after completing treatment and another retrospectively at diagnosis. Data on tumor-related factors, treatment, and outcomes were obtained retrospectively from medical records, and linear regression analysis was performed.

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Background: For the assessment of health -related quality of life (HRQOL) in women with diagnosis of breast carcinoma, patient-eported outcome measures are reported that allow subjective assessment of quality of life related to health status and satisfaction with treatment and medical care. However, their research use is still limited by the low availability of reliable and valid tools tested on samples of specific populations with malignant disease.

Aim: The aim of the article is to provide review and short description of available instruments related to HRQOL of patients with a history of treatment for breast cancer with evidence of validation in the breast cancer population.

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Some examples of the use of the principal component model for the economic description of the structure of the multiple time series and for the data reduction in the quantitative EEG studies are presented. The broad-band EEG frequency spectra were measured with the use of an electronic system designed by J. Dvorák.

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