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@ARTICLE{AguadoBarrera:296085,
author = {M. E. Aguado-Barrera and C. Lopez-Pleguezuelos and A.
Gómez-Caamaño and P. Calvo-Crespo and B.
Taboada-Valladares and D. Azria and P. Boisselier and E.
Briers and C. Chan and J. Chang-Claude$^*$ and C.
Coedo-Costa and A. Crujeiras-González and J. J. Cuaron and
G. Defraene and R. M. Elliott and C. Faivre-Finn and M.
Franceschini and O. Fuentes-Rios and J. Galego-Carro and S.
Gutiérrez-Enríquez and P. Heumann$^*$ and D. S. Higginson
and K. Johnson and M. Lambrecht and P. Lang and Y. Lievens
and M. Mollà and M. Ramos and T. Rancati and T. Rattay and
A. Rimner and B. S. Rosenstein and C. Sangalli and P.
Seibold$^*$ and E. Sperk and H. Stobart and P. Symonds and
C. J. Talbot and K. Vandecasteele and L. Veldeman and T.
Ward and A. Webb and D. Woolf and D. de Ruysscher and C. M.
L. West and A. Vega},
collaboration = {R. Consortium},
title = {{P}rofessional-patient discrepancies in assessing lung
cancer radiotherapy symptoms: {A}n international multicentre
study.},
journal = {Lung cancer},
volume = {199},
issn = {0169-5002},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {DKFZ-2025-00033},
pages = {108072},
year = {2025},
abstract = {We investigate discrepancies in the assessment of
treatment-related symptoms in lung cancer between healthcare
professionals and patients, and factors contributing to
these discrepancies.Data from 515 participants in the
REQUITE study were analysed. Five symptoms (cough, dyspnoea,
bronchopulmonary haemorrhage, chest wall pain, dysphagia)
were evaluated both before and after radiotherapy. Agreement
between healthcare professionals and people with lung cancer
was quantified using Gwet's-AC2 coefficient. The influence
of clinical variables, comorbidities, and quality-of-life
outcomes on agreement was examined through stratified
analyses.We found varying levels of agreement between
healthcare professionals and people with lung cancer.
Bronchopulmonary haemorrhage and dysphagia exhibited very
good agreement (meanAC2 > 0.81), while cough and chest wall
pain showed substantial agreement (meanAC2 = 0.64 and 0.76,
respectively). Dyspnoea had the lowest agreement (meanAC2 =
0.59), with prior chemotherapy significantly reducing
agreement levels. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
(COPD) and early cancer stages also contributed to
discrepancies in dyspnoea assessments. Regarding
quality-of-life, the most relevant factor was fatigue, which
reduced agreement in the assessment of dyspnoea (AC2 = 0.55
vs 0.70), dysphagia (AC2 = 0.48 vs 0.69), cough (AC2 = 0.58
vs 0.82), and chest wall pain (AC2 = 0.77 vs 0.91).Our
findings indicate strong alignment between healthcare
professionals' and people with lung cancer evaluations of
observable treatment-related symptoms, but less consistency
for subjective symptoms such as dyspnoea. Factors such as
prior chemotherapy, COPD, and cancer stage should be
considered when interpreting symptom assessments.
Furthermore, our study underscores the importance of
integrating quality-of-life considerations, particularly
fatigue, into symptom evaluations to mitigate potential
biases in symptom perception.},
keywords = {Correlation measures (Other) / Fatigue (Other) / Lung
cancer (Other) / Patient reported outcome measures (Other) /
Quality of life (Other) / Radiation effects (Other) /
Symptom assessment (Other)},
cin = {C020},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)C020-20160331},
pnm = {313 - Krebsrisikofaktoren und Prävention (POF4-313)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-313},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:39740425},
doi = {10.1016/j.lungcan.2024.108072},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/296085},
}