Self-reported health-related quality of life of children and adolescent survivors of extracranial childhood malignancies: a Finnish nationwide survey

: Mort S, Salantera S, Matomaki J, Salmi TT, Lahteenmaki PM

Publisher: SPRINGER

: 2011

: Quality of Life Research

: QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH

: QUAL LIFE RES

: 5

: 20

: 5

: 787

: 797

: 11

: 0962-9343

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9798-y

Our findings suggest that the diagnosis of Wilms tumor or neuroblastoma may carry substantial risks for lower HRQL. The available background variables, however, explained less than one-third of the variation in the HRQL scores. Thus, other factors than demographic or cancer-related seem to play a significant role as determinants of HRQL.