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Exploring Physical and Psychological Needs and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Immunotherapy

Sponsor: Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan

Summary

During the immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (ICIT), most of the patients stay at home, but there is lacking of the studies to explore their physical and psychological distress, financial toxicity, care needs, and quality of life. Therefore, the aims of this program are to (1) explore the immune-related adverse event (irAE) severity, distress, financial toxicity, and quality of life and examine the psychometric testing of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Immune Checkpoint Modulator (FACT-ICM); (2) establish the LINE group for assessing irAE severity and change trajectory of quality of life in one-year follow-up and (3) combined retrospective chart review and the finding in aim (2) to develop the risk prediction model in order to identify the high risk population.

Official title: Exploring Physical and Psychological Distress, Financial Toxicity, Care Needs and Quality of Life in Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Immunotherapy in One Year Follow-up: Psychometric Testing and Developing Prediction Models for Immune-related Adverse Events

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