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The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer core quality of life questionnaire, the EORTC QLQ-C30, is a cancer-specific quality of life instrument applicable to a broad range of cancer patients. The EORTC QLQ-C30 is designed to assess health-related quality of life of cancer patients participating in international oncology clinical trials. The instrument has been developed according to the so-called modular approach, where a generic or “core” instrument is combined with a specific questionnaire, so-called modules, assessing in more detail topics of relevance to specific cancer patient subgroups. The combination of a core instrument and a module allows for a sufficient degree of generalizability (via the core instrument) and specificity (via the module) (Aaronson et al., 1996; Bottomley & Aaronson, 2007; Velikova et al., 2012).
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Sprangers, M.A.G., Bonnetain, F. (2014). EORTC QLQ-C30. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_901
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