Why Cancer Drug Trials Must Include Quality of Life Measures: The Missing Piece in Patient-Centered Care

Cancer treatments are often judged by survival rates, but how do they impact patients’ daily lives? This episode explores why quality of life (QoL) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) must be included in cancer drug trials and how they change the way patients, doctors, and researchers evaluate therapies. In this episode, you’ll learn: What does quality of life and HRQoL mean in cancer careWhy survival alone is not enough to measure treatment successHow QoL instruments like the EORTC QL...