Development, Validation, and Clinical Utility of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure-Enhanced Prediction Models for Overall Survival in Patients With Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Receiving Immunotherapy.

Purpose: Electronic patient-reported outcome measures (ePROMs) are increasingly collected routinely in clinical practice and may be prognostic for survival in adults with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in addition to clinical data. This study developed ePROM-enhanced models for predicting 1-year overall survival in patients with advanced NSCLC at the start of immunotherapy.

Methods: This is a single-center study using consecutive patients from a tertiary cancer hospital in England.

Fixing the Leaky Pipe: How to Improve the Uptake of Patient-Reported Outcomes-Based Prognostic and Predictive Models in Cancer Clinical Practice.

Purpose: This discussion paper outlines challenges and proposes solutions for successfully implementing prediction models that incorporate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in cancer practice.

Methods: We organized a full-day multidisciplinary meeting of people with expertise in cancer care delivery, PRO collection, PRO use in prediction modeling, computing, implementation, and decision science. The discussions presented here focused on identifying challenges to the development, implementation and use of prediction models incorporating PROs, and suggesting possible solutions.

Prognostic value of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) in adults with non-small cell Lung Cancer: a scoping review.

Background: There is growing interest in the collection and use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to support clinical decision making in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, an overview of research into the prognostic value of PROMs is currently lacking.

Aim: To explore to what extent, how, and how robustly the value of PROMs for prognostic prediction has been investigated in adults diagnosed with NSCLC.

Association of dietary patterns with depressive symptoms in Chinese postmenopausal women.

Many components in diet have regulated oxidative stress, inflammatory reaction and even balance oestrogen levels. Because these factors are closely associated with depressive symptoms in postmenopausal women, it is considered that dietary factors are able to prevent and control depressive symptoms. On the other hand, a dietary pattern that considers the correlations and synergies between foods and nutrients is expected to have a greater impact on disease risk.

Kidney cancer and diabetes mellitus: a population-based case-control study in Taiwan.

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to explore whether diabetes mellitus (DM) correlates with the risk of kidney cancer in Taiwan.

Materials And Methods: We designed a population-based case-control study from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database, which consisted of 116 patients with newly diagnosed kidney cancer as cases and 464 subjects without kidney cancer as controls in 2000 to 2009. Both cases and controls were aged ≥20 years.

Thrombocytopenia and its related factors: a hospital-based, cross-sectional study.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to explore the association between thrombocytopenia and its related factors.

Materials And Methods: This was a hospital-based, cross-sectional study. We retrospectively analysed the medical records of all patients who received periodic health examinations at a medical centre located at Taichung in Taiwan between 2000 and 2004.