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This discussion will concentrate on the quality of life in that large group of cancer patients whose outlook is neither very bad nor very good. This is a group whose chance of being in relatively good health a year after treatment is considerably better than 50:50, but that of being alive and well 10 years later is considerably less than 50:50. This type of prognosis is common in cancer and applies, for example, to the majority of patients with breast cancer.
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Brewin, T.B. (1986). Quality of Survival — Can we Measure it? Can we Influence it?. In: Stoll, B.A. (eds) Coping with Cancer Stress. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4243-1_10
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