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Quality of Life in Pancreatic Cancer

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Pancreatic cancer is well known to have a short duration of survival after diagnosis, and to be relatively resistant to current therapies. When survival is short, quality of life (QOL) assumes great importance, and clinicians should be concerned not only with the biophysical disease process, but with the consequences of illness on the well-being of their patients. Knowledge of the demands that disease brings, not only in terms of physical threats, but also psychological and social consequences, and how the patient copes with their illness, treatment, and care, can only help greater understanding of disease and illness. Consideration of how to improve the quality as well as quantity of life is of paramount importance. It is recognized that QOL assessment is long overdue in pancreatic cancer (1).

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Fitzsimmons, D., Johnson, C.D. (1998). Quality of Life in Pancreatic Cancer. In: Reber, H.A. (eds) Pancreatic Cancer. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1810-4_18

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