Episode 130: Quality of Life, Patient-Reported Outcomes, and Clinical Trials
Healthcare Unfiltered
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The Importance of Understanding Patient Values and Preferences
In routine practice, I think that is an issue. And it also probably comes back to the clinician helping the patient balance the potential risks and benefits on both sides. For example, for many years, I only treat GI cancer now, but for many years I treated DUDG, you cancer and GI cancer, so testicular cancer. So in that context, I am very sensitive as a clinician to adjusting therapy based on quality of life and side effects. The potential downsides of me reducing full fear and oxytocin by 25% is very different from me dropping cisplatin dose in BEP.
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