Handbook of Quality of Life in Cancer

Dedication.- Foreword.- Preface.- About the Editor and Contributors.- list of abbreviations.- List of figures.- list of tables.- Part I: Concepts and Definitions.- 1. Defining Quality of Life.- 2. The Importance of Quality of Life in Cancer Patients.- Part II: Quality of Life Assessment.- 3. Using the WHOQOL as a generic measure to assess quality of life during cancer.- 4. Developing cancer quality of life assessment tools.- 5. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Measurement System.- 6. The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) Measurement System: Guidance for Use in Research and Clinical Practice.- 7. Validating Cancer Quality of Life Assessment Tools: Psychometric Considerations.- 8. Using New Technologies in Quality of Life Assessment.- 9. Modern Psychometric Measurement and Computerized Adaptive Testing.- Part III: Best-practice Elements when assessing Quality of Life.- 10. Statistical Considerations in Analyzing Health-Related Quality of Life Data.- 11. Data Visualization Strategies to Communicate PRO Data to Patients and Clinicians.- 12. Cross-Cultural Considerations in Health-Related Quality of Life in Cancer.- 13. Quality of Life and mortality.- 14. Decision-Making in the Context of Funding Cancer Therapy.- 15. Satisfaction with Cancer Care.- 16. Quality of Life and Cancer-Related Fatigue: Prevalence, Assessment and Interventions.- 17. Quality of Life in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer.- 18. Proxy measures for quality of life in cancer.- 19. The Role of Psychologists and Psychological Approaches in Cancer Care.- 20. The Role of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) in the Improvement of Healthcare Delivery and Service.- 21. Introduction to Quality of Life in Drug Development.- Part IV: Case Studies of Using Quality of Life Tools for Specific Cancer Types.- 22. Quality of Life and Breast Cancer.- 23.

Angelos P. Kassianos, PhD is a senior research fellow at University College London, Department of Applied Health Research, and at University of Cyprus, Departments of Psychology and Computer Science. He is a health psychologist with a public health and behavioral medicine focus. Dr. Kassianos has interests in bio-psycho-social determinants of disease prevention and early diagnosis (mainly cancer), health-related quality of life assessment, vaccination hesitancy and development of digital health interventions.