Background The aim of this nationwide cohort study was to examine the course of symptoms
and trajectories of health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) and psychological distress during …

Purpose Insight into emotional distress of cancer survivors from ethnic minority groups in
Europe is scarce. We aimed to compare distress levels of survivors from ethnic minorities to …

Background Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide.
Improvements in screening and treatment have allowed for earlier detection and longer …

Aim With an interest in providing knowledge for person-centred care, our overall goal is to
contribute a greater understanding of diversity among patients in terms of their …

When a person is diagnosed with cancer, difficult decisions about treatments need to be
made. In this chapter, we describe an interdisciplinary research project which aims to …

Background Thyroid cancer (TC) patients are understudied but appear to be at risk for poor
physical and psychosocial outcomes. Knowledge of the course and determinants of these …

Objective We aim to estimate the prevalence of baseline clinically significant distress in
Chinese patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) before receiving …

Background Patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) experience a multitude of symptoms
because of the tumor and its treatment. Objective To identify the symptom patterns present in …

Bias-adjusted three-step latent class analysis (LCA) is widely popular to relate covariates to
class membership. However, if the causal effect of a treatment on class membership is of …

The integration of causal inference techniques such as inverse propensity weighting (IPW)
with latent class analysis (LCA) allows for estimating the effect of a treatment on class …