TY - JOUR
AB - e ro-Oncology April 26-28, 2001 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Organized by the European Cancer Centre Conference Director 1.J. Heimans, VUMC Scientific Committee T.1.M. Hulsebos, AMC S. Leenstra, AMC B.J. Slotman, VUMC P. Sminia, VUMC L.J.A. Stalpers, AMC P. van der Valk, VUMC OCTOBER 2001 Neuro-Oncology 589 Abstracts •••••••••••••••••••••• 1. QUALITY OF LIFE IN GLIOMA ical surgery alone gave better functional as well as survival results Ahmedzai, S.; Palliative Medicine Section, Royal Hallamshire than conservative surgery with radiothetapy. Some recent studies Hospital, Sheffield, UK have also used qualitative techniques such as serial interviews to observe effects of the disease and treatments on social and family Quality of life (QoL) is a phrase that has been used ptobably functioning. When such approaches are used sensitively they need not more often in everyday conversations, in politics and in the media, be intrusive and can reveal interesting perspectives on the social than in clinical and research situations. However, in the past decade adjustment to brain tumours and the struggle to maintain work Or QoL has become a valid concept in healthcare, and therefore it is home activities. The role of physiotherapy, occupational therapy and urgent for clinicians and medical researchers to understand its mean­ 
TI - Glioma: From Gene to Cure
JF - Neuro-Oncology
DO - 10.1093/neuonc/3.Supplement_1.S89
DA - 2001-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/glioma-from-gene-to-cure-d0lfsM3Kkq
SP - S89
EP - S112
VL - 3
IS - Supplement_1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -