Abstracts in 2010
2 abstracts have been accepted for ASCO, Chicago, June 2010
1. Quinten C, Martinelli F, Vercauteren J, Greimel E, Reeve B.B., Taphoorn MJ, Cleeland C.S, Weis J, Schmucker-Von Koch J, Bottomley A, on behalf of the EORTC; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Headquarters. Use of health-related quality of life and clinical data as prognostic tools for survival prediction in a subgroup of metastatic cancer patients. 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Chicago (USA), June 2010. J Clin Oncol 28:7s, 2010 (suppl; abstr 9146)
2. Vercauteren J, Maringwa J, Coens C, Quinten C, Gotay C, Ringash J, King M, Osoba D, Flechtner H, Bottomley, A. on behalf of the EORTC; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Headquarters. The association between clinical, sociodemographic, and logistic-administrative factors and adherence to completing health-related quality-of-life questionnaires. 46th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Chicago (USA), June 2010. J Clin Oncol 28:7s, 2010 (suppl; abstr 9075)
3 Abstracts have been accepted for UICC, Shenzen, August 2010
1. Bottomley A, Carolyn G, Osoba D, Ringash J, Schmucker-Von Koch J. on behalf of the EORTC; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Headquarters. Making best use of existing clinical trials data- a global project on QOL: PROBE on behalf of the EORTC, the NCIC-CTG, MRC, the AGO.
2.Quinten Cl et al., on behalf of the EORTC; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Headquarters. Incorporating health related quality of life alongside clinical data may improve the survival prognosis of cancer patients; an update of a provisional analysis of pooled EORTC studies.
3. Martinelli F, Maringwa J, Cleeland , Greimel E, Taphoorn M, on behalf of the EORTC; European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Headquarters. Dynamic structure of HRQoL indicators: what has been done and what will be done in the PROBE project.
3 Abstracts have been submitted to ISOQOL, London, October 2010

