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Appendix Table C4.3. Comparison between watchful waiting and radiation therapy (continued)
Author, Year Study name Comparison Outcome Followup Sample size Results Factors included in the
[Pubmed ID] /Database definition/ (yr) per group model
measurement
Study design instrument
Thong 224 Eindhoven RT vs. “AS” General QoL: Mean 8 yr RT: 71 RT was negatively associated Matching: cancer stage,
2009 Cancer SF-36 scores AS: 71 with physical functioning and tumor
19747357 Registry bodily pain dimensions of the grade, age at diagnosis (
(ECR) Expanded SF-36, spiritual and total ±2 yrs), and number of
Retrospective Prostate wellbeing scores of the QoL- years since diagnosis (±2
matched cohort Cancer Index CS, and bowel function and yrs).
(EPIC): bowel bother of EPIC index.
urinary and Multivariate model adjusted
bowel No other significant for comorbidity and disease
functioning, associations between general progression
and urinary QoL, cancer-specific QoL, or
and bowel disease-specific QoL scores
bother and management strategy (RT
vs. “AS”).
Quality of Life
– Cancer
Survivors
(QOL-CS)

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