Joshua R. Richter, MD, a hematologist/oncologist at John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses results from the Living with Cancer patient-reported outcomes (PROs) tool, which is a survey to record self-reported symptoms from patients. Richter used this tool to survey 239 patients with multiple myeloma on their symptoms and psychological distress.
Joshua R. Richter, MD, a hematologist/oncologist at John Theurer Cancer Center, discusses results from the Living with Cancer patient-reported outcomes (PROs) tool, which is a survey to record self-reported symptoms from patients. Richter used this tool to survey 239 patients with multiple myeloma on their symptoms and psychological distress.
The PROs tool identifies 4 different domains of personhood: performance status, burden, pain, and depression. The patients are asked questions, and then individually weight their response to each question, which is helpful in discovering what is of most importance to each patient. One might experience pain a lot of the time, while it is not very meaningful to their daily life, while another patient could experience little pain that they do consider meaningful to their life.
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April 22nd 2024During a Case-Based Roundtable® event, Jonathan L. Kaufman, MD, discussed treatment approaches and the tolerability of a selinexor-containing regimen in a patient with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma in the first article of a 2-part series.
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