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pubmed:abstractText |
Anemia, highly common among cancer patients, is often an underlying cause of cancer-related fatigue and other quality-of-life (QOL) deficits. Although randomized clinical trials have shown that treatment with epoetin alfa increases hemoglobin levels, reduces fatigue, lessens transfusion requirements, and improves overall QOL, cancer-related anemia and fatigue remain undertreated. This is, in part, because scales and measures of QOL are still relatively unfamiliar to most clinicians and because population-based reference ranges are lacking, thus making clinical trial results difficult to interpret.
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pubmed:affiliation |
Center on Outcomes, Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Institute for Health Sciences Research and Policy Studies, Northwestern University, IL 60201, USA. d-cella@northwestern.edu
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Clinical Trial,
Comparative Study,
Randomized Controlled Trial,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't,
Multicenter Study
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