Thais Baccili Cury Megid, Divya Sharma, Zeynep Baskurt, Lucy Xiaolu Ma, Xin Wang, Carly C Barron, Raymond Woo-Jun Jang, Eric Xueyu Chen, Carol Jane Swallow, Aruz Mesci, Jonathan Yeung, Rebecca K S Wong, Savtaj Singh Brar, Patrick Veit-Haibach, John Kim, Yvonne Bach, Hiroko Aoyama, Elena Elimova
BACKGROUND: Patient-reported outcomes measures (PROM) are self-reflections of an individual's physical functioning and emotional well-being. The Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) is a simple and validated PRO tool of 10 common symptoms and a patient-reported functional status (PRFS) measure. The prognostic value of this tool is unknown in patients with gastroesophageal cancer (GEC). In this study, we examined the association between the ESAS score and overall survival (OS) in patients with GEC, the prognostication difference between ESAS and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG), and assessed the correlation between PRFS and the physician-reported ECOG performance status (PS)...
March 2, 2024: Oncologist